Sweta

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Sweta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadellidae
Tribe: Dikraneurini
Genus: Sweta
Viraktamath & Dietrich, 2011
Species
  • Sweta hallucinata
  • Sweta bambusana

Sweta is a genus of leafhopper in the subfamily Typhlocybinae, with two species. The genus name is derived from the Sanskrit word for white, the type species S. hallucinata being predominantly whitish. The genus has an elongate pronotum which is unusual in Typhlocybinae and seen only in the Signoretiinae. [1] A second species Sweta bambusana was described from China in 2012. [2]

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References

  1. Viraktamath, C.A. & Dietrich, C.H. (2011). "A remarkable new genus of Dikraneurini (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Southeast Asia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2931: 1–7. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2931.1.1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 December 2011.
  2. Yang, Lin; Xiang-Sheng Chen; Zi-Zhong Li (2012). "First record of the leafhopper genus Sweta Viraktamath & Dietrich (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, with description of one new species feeding on bamboo". ZooKeys (187): 35–43. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.187.2805 . PMC   3345901 . PMID   22577328.