A new species of Polyneura Westwood, 1842 from Yunnan, China (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadinae)

Cheng-Bin Wang; Peng-Yu Liu

doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e84554

A new species of Polyneura Westwood, 1842 from Yunnan, China (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadinae)

Biodivers Data J. 2022 Jun 2:10:e84554. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e84554. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Cheng-Bin Wang¹, Peng-Yu Liu²

Affiliations

¹ Engineering Research Center for Forest and Grassland Disaster Prevention and Reduction, Mianyang Normal University, 166 Mianxing West Road, Mianyang, China Engineering Research Center for Forest and Grassland Disaster Prevention and Reduction, Mianyang Normal University, 166 Mianxing West Road Mianyang China.
² Fuzhou Chonglinyequ Cultural creativity Co., Ltd., Taijiang District, Fuzhou, China Fuzhou Chonglinyequ Cultural creativity Co., Ltd., Taijiang District Fuzhou China.

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, Polyneuraguoliangi 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; Oriental Region; Polyneurina; Polyneurini; morphology; new species; taxonomy.

Cheng-Bin Wang, Peng-Yu Liu.