Cicadulina

Cicadulina
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadellidae
Subfamily: Deltocephalinae
Tribe: Macrostelini
Genus: Cicadulina
Naudé
Species
  • Cicadulina arachidis
  • Cicadulina bimaculata Evans
  • Cicadulina bipunctata China, the maize orange leafhopper
  • Cicadulina bipunctella Matsumura
  • Cicadulina chinai Ghauri
  • Cicadulina ghaurii
  • Cicadulina latens
  • Cicadulina mbila Naudé, the maize leafhopper
  • Cicadulina parazeae
  • Cicadulina similis
  • Cicadulina storeyi China
  • Cicadulina triangula

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. 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.

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