Cicadulina

Cicadulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Cicadomorpha
Superfamily:	Membracoidea
Family:	Cicadellidae
Subfamily:	Deltocephalinae
Tribe:	Macrostelini
Genus:	Cicadulina Naudé,
Species
Cicadulina arachidis Cicadulina bimaculata Evans Cicadulina bipunctata China, the maize orange leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctella Matsumura Cicadulina chinai Ghauri Cicadulina ghaurii Cicadulina latens Cicadulina mbila Naudé, the maize leafhopper Cicadulina parazeae Cicadulina similis Cicadulina storeyi China Cicadulina triangula

Cicadulina is a leafhopper genus in the tribe Macrostelini.

Cicadulina species are vectors of the maize streak virus, a disease which is a sporadic but severe in sub-Saharan Africa. The cause is a geminivirus which is persistently transmitted by Cicadulina leafhoppers.^[1] The disease is also transmitted to Urochloa panicoides, a fodder grass originating in Southern Africa.

The maize orange leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata has been reported to induce gall-like structures on maize in Japan^[2]

References

1. Electrical penetration graphs from Cicadulina spp. and the inoculation of a persistent virus into maize. F. M. Kimmins and N. A. Bosque-Perez, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships, Series Entomologica, 1996, Volume 53, pages 46-49, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1720-0_11
2. Recent Outbreaks of the Maize Orange Leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata Inducing Gall-like Structures on Maize in Japan. Masaya Matsumura, Makoto Tokuda and Nobuyuki Endo, Galling Arthropods and Their Associates, 2006, pages 149-158, doi:10.1007/4-431-32185-3_12

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