Cicadulina
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Collections
- INHS, TAMU, MSU, MZLU
- Recorded in
- China, Australia, Niger, Tanzania
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cicadellidae
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- taxon name
- Cicadulina
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cicadulina is a leafhopper genus in the tribe Macrostelini.
Cicadulina species are vectors of the maize streak virus, a disease which is a sporadic but severe in sub-Saharan Africa. The cause is a geminivirus which is persistently transmitted by Cicadulina leafhoppers. The disease is also transmitted to Urochloa panicoides, a fodder grass originating in Southern Africa.
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