Tribe reassessment of the subhimalayan leafhopper genus Pseudosubhimalus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) based on molecular phylogeny

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Tribe reassessment of the subhimalayan leafhopper genus Pseudosubhimalus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) based on molecular phylogeny https://t.co/oS9yrP2m7c https://t.co/wpY7jC3J3b
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Introduction

Material and Methods

Collection of samples & morphological study

DNA extraction and PCR amplification

Alignment and phylogenetic analyses

Maximum Parsimony Bootstrap Analysis (MPBS)

Results

Taxonomy

Pseudosubhimalus Ghauri

Key to species of Pseudosubhimalus (Males)

Pseudosubhimalus bicolor (Pruthi) [Figs. 1A, 1B, 1E, 1G1L, 2A2F, 3A3H]

Pseudosubhimalus trilobatus sp. nov. Meshram & Niranjana [Figs. 1C, 1D, 4A4F]

Molecular analysis

Discussion

Conclusion

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Niranjana GN and Tahseen Raza Hashmi performed the experiments, analyzed the data.

Naresh M. Meshram conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Pathour R. Shashank authored or reviewed drafts of the paper.

Stuti analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables.

DNA Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of DNA sequences:

Data is available at GenBank, accession numbers: MH172175, MH172179, MH172183 and MH172181.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Type material is deposited in National Pusa Collection, IARI, New Delhi, with repository number RRS1.

New Species Registration

The following information was supplied regarding the registration of a newly described species:

Publication LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DB2CE2D9-1238-4199-96A4-A7FDCD98DD8B.

Pseudosubhimalus LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:766C2292-F762-4F2E-93A2-8745C84D7BCA.

Pseudosubhimalus trilobatus LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:9A9DA3CD-A577-41DB-8059-28D57E38F875.

Funding

This work was supported by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and also by a Department of Science and Technology grant (EMR/2016/006582). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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