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| Polyneura guoliangi Wang & Liu, 2022 |
Abstract
Background:
The tribe Polyneurini Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) is a small tribe which includes four genera and 18 species, distributing in eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. Most of them, four genera and 16 species, are known from China.
New information:
A remarkable new species of cicada, Polyneura guoliangi sp. n. (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadinae), is described and illustrated from Yunnan, southwest China. The diagnostic characters of the new species are compared with allied species or genera.
Keywords: Cicada, Polyneurini, Polyneurina, taxonomy, morphology, new species, Oriental Region
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| Polyneura guoliangi sp. n., holotype, male: A habitus, dorsal view; B habitus, ventral view; C fore femur, lateral view. Abbreviations: a1, 10, 26: apical cells 1, 10, 26; asp: subapical spine; psp: primary spine; ssp: secondary spine. Scale bar 1 for A and B; 2 for C. |
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| Living Polyneura guoliangi sp. n. (holotype, male) at Xiaoheishan Nature Reserve (Yunnan, China). A caught by the collector Liang Guo; B dorsal view; C dorsolateral view. |
Polyneura guoliangi Wang & Liu, sp. n.
Etymology: The new species is dedicated to the collector of the type specimen, Mr. Liang Guo (Fuzhou, China), an enthusiastic amateur entomologist. The name is a noun in the genitive case. The Chinese name “郭亮网翅蝉” is proposed for the Chinese common name of this new species.
Cheng-Bin Wang and Peng-Yu Liu. 2022. A New Species of Polyneura Westwood, 1842 from Yunnan, China (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadinae). Biodiversity Data Journal. 10: e84554. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e84554
