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Two new genera of flatid planthoppers from Socotra island (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae)

STROIŃSKI, Adam; Igor MALENOVSKÝ and Dariusz ŚWIERCZEWSKI

Basic information

Original name

Two new genera of flatid planthoppers from Socotra island (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae)

Authors

STROIŃSKI, Adam (616 Poland); Igor MALENOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Dariusz ŚWIERCZEWSKI (616 Poland)

Edition

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, Praha, Národní muzeum, 2016, 0374-1036

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Field of Study

Zoology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00092600

Organization

Přírodovědecká fakulta – Repository – Repository

UT WoS

000389768300002

Keywords in English

Auchenorrhyncha; Fulgoroidea; Flatidae; Flatinae; systematics; taxonomy; new species; endemism; Socotra; Afrotropical Region
Changed: 3/9/2020 15:47, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

V originále

Two new monotypic genera of flatid planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae) are described from Socotra island (Yemen): Dixamflata gen. nov. for D. petri sp. nov. and Kesaflata gen. nov. for K. lubosi sp. nov. Habitus, male and female external and internal genital structures of the new species are illustrated and compared to similar taxa. Both new genera share an “issid-like” habitus which evolved convergently in many unrelated planthopper groups distributed in arid and semi-arid zones of the world. They might be closely related to the western Palaearctic genera Cyphopterum Melichar, 1905 and Riodeorolix Lindberg, 1956. As both new species are sub-brachypterous and were collected in plant communities specifi c to Socotra, they may represent endemics of the island.

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