@article{b660a2897cc34c40847a6e3f6841eddf,
title = "Redescription of the dikraneurini leafhopper dikrella mella ruppel & delong, 1952 (Hemiptera, cicadellidae) with a synoptic checklist of leafhoppers on avocado trees in mexico",
abstract = "Among leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), only Typhlocybinae are known in Mexico to inhabit avocado, an important horticultural crop. In this paper, a potential avocado pest, Dikrella mella Ruppel & DeLong, 1952, is redescribed and illustrated.",
keywords = "Alconeura, Auchenorrhyncha, Empoasca, Empoascini, Idona, Joruma, Typhlocybinae",
author = "Pinedo-Escatel, {J. Adilson} and Dmitry Dmitriev",
note = "The first author is very grateful to Axel Cristobal P. E. for comments during development of manuscript. We kindly were helped by Christopher Dietrich (Illinois Natural History Survey. USA) and Maria I. Catalano (Centro de Bioinvestigaciones de la Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires) with helpful comments to improve the manuscript. Edith Blanco-Rodr{\'i}guez helped corroborate identification of the specimens. We also thank curators of collections, Luciana Musetti (OSUC), Harry Brailovsky and M. Cristina Mayorga-Mart{\'i}nez (CNIN), Jose Luis Navarrete-Heredia (CZUG), and Jesus Romero-N{\'a}poles (CEAM) for access to types and other specimens. J.A. Pinedo-Escatel is supported by CONACyT [CVU: 705854] and BEMARENA Ph.D. program of the Universidad de Guadalajara at Centro Uni-versitario de Ciencias Biol{\'o}gicas y Agropecuarias, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. Dmitry Dmitriev is supported by National Science Foundation [NSF 16-39601].",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.3897/zookeys.857.33910",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2019",
pages = "17--27",
journal = "ZooKeys",
issn = "1313-2989",
publisher = "Pensoft Publishers",
number = "857",
}