Cicadulina

Cicadulina
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
	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.^[1] The disease is also transmitted to Urochloa panicoides, a fodder grass originating in Southern Africa.^{[citation needed]}

The maize orange leafhopper Cicadulina bipunctata has been reported to induce gall-like structures on maize in Japan.^[2]

^ 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

[1] 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

[2] 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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