Taxonomic updates and descriptions of four new Lophopini planthopper species (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Lophopidae) from Yunnan province, South China

  • Menglin Wang Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China and Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC-EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, F-75005 Paris, France
  • Adeline Soulier-Perkins Mécanismes adaptatifs et évolution, MECADEV-UMR 7179 MNHN-CNRS, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, F-75005 Paris
  • Yinglun Wang Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100
  • Thierry Bourgoin Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC-EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, F-75005 Paris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.185
Keywords: Taxonomy, new taxa, Pitambara, Serida, Lacusa

Abstract

Taxonomic updates and descriptions of four new species from Yunnan, China are provided: three new species in the genus Pitambara Distant, 1906: P. triremiprocta Wang & Soulier-Perkins, sp. nov., P. impudica Wang & Bourgoin, sp. nov., P. tricorne Wang & Wang, sp. nov., and one new species in the genus Serida Walker, 1857: Serida parenthesisflexuosa Wang & Soulier-Perkins, sp. nov. A new identification key to Pitambara species is provided, as well as to the species of the genus Lacusa Stål, 1862. Lacusa yunnanensis Chou & Huang, 1985 stat. rev. is not considered as a synonym of the species L. fuscofasciata (Stål, 1854) anymore and Lacusa orientalis (Liang, 2000) is transferred to the genus Acothrura Melichar, 1915 as Acothrura orientalis (Liang, 2000) comb. nov.

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Published
2016-03-30
How to Cite
Wang, M., Soulier-Perkins, A., Wang, Y., & Bourgoin, T. (2016). Taxonomic updates and descriptions of four new Lophopini planthopper species (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Lophopidae) from Yunnan province, South China. European Journal of Taxonomy, (185). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.185
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No. 185 (2016): Taxonomic updates and descriptions of four new Lophopini planthopper species (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Lophopidae) from Yunnan province, South China
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Entomology
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