Nomenclatural changes in the tribe Empoascini of the subfamily Typhlocybinae (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae)

Dao-Zheng Qin; Si-Han Lu; Li-Fang Zheng; Yi-Xin Huang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.346.6392

Nomenclatural changes in the tribe Empoascini of the subfamily Typhlocybinae (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae)

Zookeys. 2013 Nov 1:(346):85-7. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.346.6392. eCollection 2013.

Authors

Dao-Zheng Qin¹, Si-Han Lu, Li-Fang Zheng, Yi-Xin Huang

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, China.

Abstract

One genus and species are synonymized in the tribe Empoascini of the subfamily Typhlocybinae. Bhatasca Dworakowska, 1995is a junior synonym of Alebrasca Hayashi & Okada, 1994, Bhatasca rectangulata Qin & Zhang, 2011is a junior synonym of Alebrasca actinidiae Hayashi & Okada, 1994. Furthermore, Bhatasca expansa is (necessarily) transferred to the genus Alebrasca.

Keywords: Auchenorryncha; China; Homoptera; leafhopper; synonym; taxonomy.