Four new species of the planthopper genus Metanigrus Tsaur, Yang & Wilson from China (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Meenoplidae)

Sha-Sha Lv; Thierry Bourgoin; Lin Yang; Xiang-Sheng Chen

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1024.62226

Four new species of the planthopper genus Metanigrus Tsaur, Yang & Wilson from China (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Meenoplidae)

Zookeys. 2021 Mar 16:1024:197-213. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1024.62226. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Sha-Sha Lv^{1

2}, Thierry Bourgoin³, Lin Yang^{1

2}, Xiang-Sheng Chen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China.
² The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources of Guizhou, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, China.
³ Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, UMR 7205 MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Université-EPHE-Univ. Antilles, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CP 50, 57 Rue Cuvier, F-75005, Paris, France.

Abstract

Four new species of the genus Metanigrus Tsaur, Yang & Wilson, 1986, M. chromus Lv & Chen, sp. nov., M. guttatus Lv & Chen, sp. nov., M. gremius Lv & Chen, sp. nov., and M. spinatus Lv, Chen & Bourgoin, sp. nov. from China (Hubei, Guizhou and Yunnan), are described and illustrated, giving the genus six species in total. A key to all known species of Metanigrus is provided, as well as a map of their geographic distributions.

Keywords: Fulgoroidea; Meenoplinae; Oriental region; morphology; taxonomy.

Sha-Sha Lv, Thierry Bourgoin, Lin Yang, Xiang-Sheng Chen.