An experiment was conducted to manage the eggplant (brinjal) shoot and fruit borer Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), the leafhopper Amrasca biguttula biguttula (Ishida) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), and the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) during kharif, the southwest monsoon season (Jul-Oct), in 2010 and 2011 at an experimental farm at the Division ...

The two Chinese species of the leafhopper genus Exitianus Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) (Exitianus indicus (Distant) and Exitianus nanus (Distant)) are reviewed. Descriptions of the species and a key for their separation are provided. Exitianus fulvinervis Li & He is considered a junior synonym of Exitianus nanus syn. n.

The previously monotypic leafhopper genus Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb (Deltocephalinae, Drabescini, Paraboloponina), recorded from Australia and New Guinea, is recorded from mainland Asia (China) for the first time and a new species, N. pectena sp. nov., from Fanjingshan Mountain in Guizhou Prov., China, is described and illustrated.

Five new leafhopper species, Qadria bannaensis, Q. daliensis, Q. dongfanga, Q. guiyanga and Q. cucullata spp. nov. from Yunnan, Hainan and Guizhou Prov. of China are described and illustrated, and a key to all species of the genus Qadria is provided.

Two leafhopper (Hemiptera Cicadellidae) hosts are reported for Gonatocerus (Gonatocerus) californicus Girault (Hymenoptera Mymaridae): Exitianus obscurinervis (Stal) and Spangbergiella vulnerata lacerdae Signoret. At El Manantial site in Tucumán Province, Argentina, G. californicus emerged from 7.1% and 90.5% of the parasitized sentinel eggs of the respective host on maize plants. Notes on the ...

Two new Chinese species of the leafhopper genus Onukigallia, Onukigallia neoonukiisp. n. from Sichuan and Guangdong Provinces, and Onukigallia tumidasp. n. from Hubei and Hunan Provinces are described and illustrated. A key and an updated checklist with distributions of Onukigallia species are provided.

Macrotrichia gen. n., a new leafhopper genus of the tribe Ledrini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae), and three species, M. deltata sp. n., M. hamata sp. n. and M. flavomarginata (Kuoh & Cai) n. comb., from southern China are described and illustrated. A key to all species is provided, and the differences between the new genus and a closely related genus Tituria Stål are discussed.

A new Oriental stegelytrine leafhopper genus, Wyuchiva, and two new species, Wyuchiva elegantula (type species) from Thailand and Wyuchiva menglaensis from China, are described and illustrated. The taxonomic position of the new genus is discussed and phylogenetic remarks on this and a related genus, Temburocera Webb, 1999, are given.

New leafhopper taxa in the deltocephaline tribe Scaphytopiini Oman are described: Xenovarta lui sp. n., and a new genus and species Aparaphysis lushuiiensis, gen. n., sp. n. from China. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of the new genus and species are given. A checklist to genera of Scaphytopiini is provided.