Response of Leafhopper Community Structure and Diversity to Fragmented Habitat in a Rocky Karst Desertification Area, Guizhou, China [PDF]
InsectsGuizhou Province is located in the karst area of southern China, where rocky desertification is severe, and habitat fragmentation is prominent. Leafhoppers are widely distributed, with over 2000 recognized species found in China.
Wenming Xu +3 more
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What Is the Relationship Between Efficacy of Seed Treatment with Insecticides Against Dalbulus maidis (Delong and Wolcott) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Healthy and Infected with Spiroplasm in the Corn Stunt Control? [PDF]
InsectsSeed treatments with insecticides are important tools for managing corn stunting disease complex (CSDC) transmitted by Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) by reducing the initial leafhoppers’ population and, consequently, the risk of pathogen ...
Ana Carolina M. Redoan +9 more
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Tiny particles help insects evade predators [PDF]
eLifeBy reducing the reflection of ultraviolet light, hollow nanoparticles called brochosomes help to protect leafhoppers from predators.
Lin Wang, Tak-Sing Wong
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Leafhopper food plants in a Neotropical forest in Panama (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 The leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) are a group of insects that suck sap from vascular plants. The host plants of most species of Cicadellidae are unknown, but some species are known to have a wide range of food plants, while others are host plant specific ...
EDWIN DOMÍNGUEZ +2 more
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First record of the leafhopper Platymetopius notatus Fieber (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) from northwest Algeria with description of the species [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 A continuous monitoring of leafhoppers in a pear orchard of Santa maria variety located in Khemis Miliana in the northwest Algeria for a period of 7 months from February to August 2019 revealed a species, Platymetopius notatus Fieber, earlier reported ...
Nabila Guerrouche +3 more
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Genetic insights into Graminella nigrifrons Competence for maize fine streak virus infection and transmission. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Most plant-infecting rhabdoviruses are transmitted by one or a few closely related insect species. Additionally, intraspecific differences in transmission efficacy often exist among races/biotypes within vector species and among strains within a virus ...
Bryan J Cassone +4 more
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Insects, 2023 The mosaic leafhopper, Orientus ishidae (Matsumura), is an Asian species widespread in Europe that can cause leaf damage in wild trees and transmit disease phytoplasmas to grapevines. Following an O.
Giovanni Dalmaso +6 more
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Insects, 2023 Scaphoideus titanus is the main vector of phytoplasmas associated with Flavescence dorée (FD), one of the most serious threats to viticulture in many European countries.
Stefan Cristian Prazaru +9 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2021 A new Brazilian leafhopper genus of the subfamily Neocoelidiinae is proposed: Takiyaella gen. nov. based on T. sexguttata (Chiamolera & Cavichioli, 2003) gen. et comb. nov. and five new species: T. anomala gen. et sp. nov., T. coelhomarquesae gen. et sp.
Clayton C. Gonçalves +1 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Phytoplasmas (Mollicutes, Acholeplasmataceae), vector‐borne obligate bacterial plant parasites, infect nearly 1,000 plant species and unknown numbers of insects, mainly leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Deltocephalinae), which play a key role in transmission and ...
Valeria Trivellone +3 more
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