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Adelungia Melichar 1902
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia vmgnezdilov @ mail. ru, Vladimir. Gnezdilov @ zin. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7331 - 8744
- 2. All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, Russian Academy of Sciences, Podbelskogo 3, Pushkin, St. Petersburg 196608, Russia neimorovets @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7096 - 5447
Description
Genus Adelungia Melichar, 1902
Adelungia Melichar, 1902: 134.
Type species: Adelungia elegans Melichar, 1902, by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Head of imago with short or enlarged compressed process directed at nearly right angle to horizontal plane of the head (Figs 1A, 2, 5A–B). Aedeagus without lateral processes basally; aedeagal shaft cylindrical, not serrated, with pair of subapical denticles (Mozaffarian & Gnezdilov 2022, figs 18 a–b, 19 a–b).
Species composition. Two species, A. elegans Melichar and A. primigena Dlabola differing from each other by the shape and size of the head process (Figs 1A, 2, 5A–B).
Distribution. The genus is limited to southeastern Iran in distribution (Fig. 10).
Notes
Published as part of Gnezdilov, Vladimir M. & Neimorovets, Vladimir V., 2023, Revisionary notes on the genus Adelungia Melichar, 1902 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Megophthalminae), with the description of a new genus, pp. 564-574 in Zootaxa 5284 (3) on page 565, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/7929725
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Melichar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Adelungia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Adelungia Melichar, 1902 sec. Gnezdilov & Neimorovets, 2023
References
- Melichar, L. (1902) Homopteren aus West-China, Persien und dem Sud-Ussuri- Gebiete gesammelt von Potanin, Berezovski, Zarudny und Jankovski. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 7, 76 - 146.
- Mozaffarian, F. & Gnezdilov, V. M. (2022) Leafhoppers of the tribe Adelungiini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) in Iran. Zootaxa, 5213 (4), 413 - 426. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5213.4.5