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Two new species of Kapateira Young from Costa Rica (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae)
Fecha
2006-08Registro en:
1175-5334
10.11646/zootaxa.1282.1.3
801-A2-528
Autor
Godoy Cabrera, Ivania Carolina
Garita Cambronero, Jerson
Rivera Herrero, Carmen
Villalobos Muller, William
Institución
Resumen
The genus Kapateira was described by Young (1977), who included one species from Colombia but noted that the genus also occurs in Panama, Venezuela, Eucador, and Bolivia. In this paper two new species are decribed, K. peruana from Peru and K. coffea from Costa Rica. The latter species is associated with coffee and citrus, and information is provided on its biology. DAS-ELISA tests for the bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, yielded numerous positive results, suggesting that K. coffea is a potential vector of diseases such as coffee leaf scorch and citrus variegation chlorosis.