On the synonymy of Dryodurgades dlabolai Wagner (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Agalliinae)

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by  V. M. Gnezdilov

© Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, 2007
On the synonymy of Dryodurgades dlabolai Wagner
(Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Agalliinae)
V.M. Gnezdilov
Gnezdilov, V.M. 2007. On the synonymy of Dryodurgades dlabolai Wagner (Homoptera:
Cicadellidae: Agalliinae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 16(2): 176.
Dryodurgades sindicensis Gnezdilov, 1997 is placed in synonymy under D. dlabolai
Wagner, 1963.
V.M. Gnezdilov, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab.
1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia. E-mail: [email protected]
During a study of the Auchenorrhyncha collec- Material examined. Hungary: 1 M, Simontornya, Ujhe-
tion of Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle lyi. Serbia: 1 M, Kopaonik, Šanac, Kojenje, 19.VI.1954.
(Paris, France), specimens of Dryodurgades
Acknowledgements
dlabolai Wagner, 1963, including a topotype
from Simontornya (Hungary), were examined.
The study was made with a Museum National d’Histoire
The study showed that D. sindicensis Gnezdilov, Naturelle grant 2007 for invited scientists.
1997 described from the Caucasus is a junior
synonym of D. dlabolai, according to the structure References
of aedeagus, which has bifurcate apical processes
with internal tooth on each upper branch (Gn- Gnezdilov, V.M. 1997. Two new species of leafhoppers
ezdilov, 1997, fi gs 10, 11). The original fi gures by from the Caucasus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Zoo syst.
Ross., 6(1/2): 91-93.
Wagner (1963, fi gs 2a, 2b) are incorrect. Wagner
Wagner, W. 1963. Revision der europäischen Arten dreier
fi gured the teeth of the upper aedeagal branches
Gattungen der Homoptera-Cicadina Dryodurgades
as external. Zachvatkin, Fieberiella Signoret und Phlepsius Fieber.
Entomol. Mitt. Zool. Staatsinst. Zool. Mus. Hamburg,
Dryodurgades dlabolai Wagner, 1963 2: 423-435.
Dryodurgades dlabolai Wagner, 1963: 426.
Dryodurgades sindicensis Gnezdilov, 1997: 91, syn. n. Received 13 July 2007