Taxonomy of the vector leafhopper genus Nesoclutha Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description of a new species
Author
Zhang, Yalin
Author
Lu, Lin
text
Zootaxa
2011
2763
61
65
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.276835
780392bc-7a9b-4f51-89b3-6cf0fa2e50c9
1175-5326
276835
Nesoclutha concavipenis
sp. nov.
Distribution:
China
.
Nesoclutha concolor
Logvinenko
Nesoclutha concolor
Logvinenko, 1977
: 66
, fig. 5, 1–3 Distribution:
Azerbaijan
.
Nesoclutha declivata
(Linnavuori)
Irinula declivata
Linnavuori, 1960: 332
, fig. 49, c–h Distribution: Southwest Caroline Island.
Nesoclutha erythrocephala
(Ferrari)
Cicadula erythrocephala
,
Ferrari, 1882
: 118
.
Irinula erythrocephala
,
Ribaut, 1948
: 58
;
Ribaut, 1952
: 62
, figs 84–87; Linnavuori, 1960: 332, fig. 49, a–b
Nesoclutha erythrocephala
,
Theron, 1982
: 23
, figs 54–59.
Irinula flava
Lindberg, 1958
: 158
, synonymised by
Theron, 1982
: 23
Distribution:
China
(Hainan,
Taiwan
), South Europe,
Turkey
, Caucasia,
Iran
,
Japan
, Bonin Island,
South Africa
.
Nesoclutha phryne
(Kirkaldy)
Nesosteles phryne
Kirkaldy, 1907
: 66
Eusceloscopus pallidus
Evans 1942
: 147
Nesoclutha obscura
Evans, 1947
: 126
, fig.1, a–c, synonymised by
Evans, 1966
: 252
Nesoclutha pallida,
Evans, 1966
: 252
;
Knight, 1975
: 198
, figs16–17;
Day & Fletcher, 1994
: 1220
Distribution.
China
(Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan),
Australia
,
New Zealand
,
Indonesia
(Java),
New Caledonia
.
Note. This name was synonymised with
N. pallida
(Evans)
by
Day & Fletcher (1994)
. They suggested that the widespread use of
N. pallida
, particularly in relation to its disease transmission in economic plants, justified an application to the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) for preservation of the younger name over
N. phryne
. However, no submission was subsequently made (M.J. Fletcher, personal communication, 2010) and
Nesosteles phryne
Kirkaldy
as the senior synonym of
N. pallida
still has priority.