Cicadulina
| Cicadulina | |
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| 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 | |
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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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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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