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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2026, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (1): 101-110.

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Clarification of the Identities of the Cicadellid and Fulgoroid Pests in Shaanxi Tea Area and Correction of the Scientific Name of Tea Green Leafhopper in China

QIN Daozheng1, ZHANG Tingyu1, XIE Kangwen1, BI Jianyu1, ZHANG Huan1,2, FANG Wei1, XU Ye3   

  1. 1. College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China;
    2. Shanxi Sericulture Science Research Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Yuncheng 044000, China;
    3. College of Agriculture, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
  • Received:2025-06-22 Revised:2025-09-04 Online:2026-02-15 Published:2026-02-06

Abstract: The goal of this study is to clarify the identities of the cicadellid and fulgoroid pests damaging tea shrub in Shaanxi tea area, and to provide scientific data for the integrated pest management (IPM) of sucking mouthpart pests in Shaanxi tea area and other related studies. Meanwhile, the scientific name of tea green leafhopper that harms Chinese tea bushes was corrected. Net was used for capturing cicadellid and fulgoroid adults in Shaanxi tea area, photos of adults and male genitalia of these species were taken by a CCD (Charge-coupled device) stereozoom microscope. This investigation indicates that there were 7 species of cicadellid and fulgoroid pests in Shaanxi tea area. The scientific names of the dominant pest, Empoasca (Matsumurasca) onukii Matsuda, 1952 should be changed to Matsumurasca (Matsumurasca) onukii (Matsuda, 1952), the scientific names of the remaining six species are Bothrogonia ferruginea (Fabricius, 1787), Pochazia shantungensis (Chou & Lu, 1977), Ricania speculum (Walker, 1851), Ricanula fujianensis Ren, Stroiński & Qin, 2016, Salurnis marginella (Guérin-Méneville, 1829) and Raivuna sinica (Walker, 1851), respectively. The scientific name of the dominant pest, the tea green leafhopper which is distributed throughout all major tea plantations in China, should be corrected to Matsumurasca (Matsumurasca) onukii (Matsuda, 1952).

Key words: Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, tea pest, scientific name, correction

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