Review of the southern Palaearctic and Palaeotropical leafhopper genus Hengchunia Vilbaste (Homoptera, Cicadellidae)

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:1994
Authors:M. Asche, Webb M. D.
Journal:Tijdschrift voor Entomologie
Volume:137
Pagination:143-154
Type of Article:Article
ISBN Number:0040-7496
Other Numbers:1994a
Keywords:additions to checklist, Africa, Afrotropical, Afrotropical & Oriental species, Afrotropical region, amendments, amendments & additions, Asia, Bihar, Cameroon, checklists, Combination, Congo-Kinshasa, Documentation, Eurasia, Evolution, Gujarat, Gujarat & Sind, Hengchunia, Hengchunia helleri, Hengchunia indica, Hengchunia javana, Hengchunia pakistanica, Henschia, Henschia vittata, India, Indonesia, Key, Land zones, lectotype, new, new combination, New species, new synonym, New taxa, Nomenclature, Oriental region, Pakistan, Palaearctic, Palaeotropical regions and zones, Paralimnellus, Paralimnellus vittata, Paralimnini, phylogeny, Pseupalus, Publications, Pusa, Sind, Synonymy, Systematics, Taxonomic position, Taxonomy, Thamnotettix koshunensis, Type material, Zoogeography
Abstract:

The leafhopper genus Pseupalus Remane & Asche (Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini) is synonymized with Hengchunia Vilbaste syn. n. Four new species are described: H. helleri sp. n. from Cameroun and Zaire, H. indica sp. n. from India, H. pakistanica sp. n. from Pakistan and H. javana sp. n. from Indonesia: Java. Hengchunia now contains nine species which are probably all associated with the grass genus Imperata. The zoogeographical distribution of the species and their potential phylogenetic relationships are briefly discussed. Additions and amendments to Webb & Heller's (1990) check-list of Afrotropical and Oriental Paralimnini are made and include Paralimnellus Emeljanov (1972), oldest available name for Bubulcus Dlabola (1961) (junior homonym of Bubulcus Bonaparte 1854, Aves) and Paralimnellus vittata (Matsumura) comb. n. from Henschia.

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