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Empoasca

Zhang, Ya-Lin;Liu, Yang;Qin, Dao-Zheng

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Empoasca is a genus of leafhoppers belonging to the family Cicadellidae subfamily Typhlocybinae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHemiptera
  5. FamilyCicadellidae
Observations recorded70,695

Body color green to yellowish, with variable symmetrical patches on head and thorax; coronal suture not reaching midlength of crown (Figs 18a, 20a, 24a, 26a); forewing with RP and MP’ stalked (Fig. 22) or separated (Fig. 28), hindwing with CuA unbranched (Fig. 23, 29); male pygofer, with fine sparse setae distally, macrosetae absent, ventral pygofer appendage present (in some species processes crossed in dorsal view), free from pygofer lobe, at least for halflength of pygofer (Figs 1, 9); subgenital fig broad basally, basal series of setae on outer margin and an oblique series of macrosetae from base to apex bi-seriate basally (Figs 5, 13); paramere elongate, curved, with apical teeth (Figs 6, 14); aedeagus with preatrium present, shaft without processes or occasionally with pair of processes, gonopore apical on ventral surface, dorsal apodeme poorly developed or absent (Figs 7, 8, 15, 16); anal tube processes distinct.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
20,244
With media
7
Family
Cicadellidae
Collections
IFIT-CP, IBUNAM, UAM
Recorded in
Mexico, United States

Wikidata facts

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Encyclopedic overview

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Empoasca is a genus of leafhoppers belonging to the family Cicadellidae subfamily Typhlocybinae.

==Species== Empoasca abrupta DeLong, 1931 Empoasca affinis Nast, 1937 Empoasca alsiosa Ribaut, 1933 Empoasca apicalis (Flor, 1861) Empoasca biloba Qin & Zhang, 2008 Empoasca canariensis Metcalf, 1955 Empoasca clypeata Qin & Zhang, 2008 Empoasca decedens (Paoli, 1932) Empoasca decipiens Paoli, 1930 Empoasca fabae Harris, 1841 Empoasca irenae Anufriev, 1973 Empoasca kontkaneni Ossiannilsson, 1949 Empoasca lybica Bergevin & Zanon, 1922 Empoasca onukii Matsuda, 1952 Empoasca ossiannilssoni Nuorteva, 1948 Empoasca pteridis (Dahlbom, 1850) Empoasca punjabensis Singh-Pruthi, 1940 Empoasca quadrifida Qin & Zhang, 2008 Empoasca recurvata DeLong, 1931 Empoasca serrata Vilbaste, 1965 Empoasca solani (Curtis, 1846) Empoasca vitis (Göthe, 1875)

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