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Rhabdotalebra Young 1952

Description

Rhabdotalebra Young 1952

Type species: Protalebra octolineata Baker, 1903, by original designation.

Morphological diagnoses of Rhabdotalebra were provided by Young (1957) and Catalano et al. (2010).

Host plants: (Bignonaceae) Tabebuia pulcherrima Sandw; Tabebuia impetiginosa (Mart. ex DC.) Standley (“lapachos”), Tabebuia ipe (Mart.) Standley (“lapachillo”) (Catalano et al. 2010), Tecoma stans (Linnaeus ) Juss. ex Kunth (Guarán-Guarán).

Geographical distribution: Species of the genus distributed in Argentina were previously recorded from the northern provinces (Young 1957; Catalano 2010). The new finding represents the southernmost distribution of the genus.

Notes

Published as part of Paradell, Susana, Catalano, María Inés & Petrulevičius, Julián, 2017, A new species of Rhabdotalebra Young (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) associated with the guaran-guaran (Bignoniaceae: Tecoma stans L.) in Argentina, pp. 225-231 in Zootaxa 4281 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.21, http://zenodo.org/record/816077

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Rhabdotalebra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Young
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Rhabdotalebra Young, 1952 sec. Paradell, Catalano & Petrulevičius, 2017

References

  • Young, D. A. Jr. (1952) A reclassification of Western Hemisphere Typhlocybinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Kansas University Science Bulletin, 35, 1 - 217.
  • Young, D. A. Jr. (1957) The leafhopper tribe Alebrini (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 107, 1 - 277.
  • Catalano, M. I., Paradell, S. & Marino de Remes Lenicov A. M. (2010) Revision of the genus Rhabdotalebra Young (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Alebrini) and description of two new species from Argentina, Zootaxa, 2601 (53), 53 - 60.