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Wilson, M. R. ; Takiya, D. M.: Cicadellinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) described by Leopold Melichar in the Hungarian Natural History Museum

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 99 Budapest, 2007 pp. 29-48. Cicadellinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) described by Leopold Melichar in the Hungarian Natural History Museum M. R. WILSON

1 & D. M. TAKIYA

2 1 Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. Wales, United Kingdom. E-mail: mike.wilson@museumwales.ac.uk 2 Center for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL, 61820 U.S.A. E-mail: takiya@acd.ufrj.br Abstract - The species of cicadelline leafhoppers described by L. MELICHAR from the Hungarian Natural History Museum are reviewed. A lectotype is described for the following species: Erythrogonia biroi MELICHAR, 1926. The following new combination is proposed: Mysolis biroi MELICHAR, 1926, comb, n., transferred to Deltocephalinae tribe Drabescini (= Paraboloponini). With 2 figures. Keywords - Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae, MELICHAR, lectotype designations. INTRODUCTION The leafhoppers comprise by far the largest family within the Hemiptera, with approximately 19,500 described species in over 40 subfamilies (OMAN et al. 1990) of which the subfamily Cicadellinae comprises around 2400 species in around 330 genera. The name "sharpshooter" for this group of xylem-feeding leafhoppers has increasingly been used especially in the USA. The Cicadellinae, as currently defined, was revised by DAVID YOUNG (1915-1991) in three remarkable volumes (YOUNG 1968a, 1977^, 1986a). The publication of these works has enabled the evaluation and description of additional genera and species, primarily by researchers in Brazil and China. Until YOUNG started his work on the Cicadellinae the large majority of species had been described by European workers, whose collections were deposited in European museums. He spent the academic year 1962-63 visiting a number of European museums in order to study these historic collections, especially those of MELICHAR,