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SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN GENERA AND SPECIES IN THE GROUP FORMERLY CALLED PLATYMETOPIUS (RHYNCHOTA, HOMOPTERA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

E. D. Ball
E. D. Ball
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson
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The writer has been working on the food plants of the leaf-hoppers for many years and has found in the main the different species of the genus Platymetopius, as commonly recognized, are very closely confined to a single species of plant or to a closely related group. Before it was possible to prepare a list of the food plants in the group it was found necessary to describe a number of new species of which food plant and life history information was available. In working out the relationship of these species, two startling discoveries were made.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 63 , Issue 9 , September 1931 , pp. 216 - 222
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1931

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