Cicadulina
Genus of true bugs
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Cicadulina is a leafhopper genus in the tribe Macrostelini.
| Cicadulina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadellidae |
| Subfamily: | Deltocephalinae |
| Tribe: | Macrostelini |
| Genus: | Cicadulina Naudé |
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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]
