A new, unusually dark, typhlocybine leafhopper (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae, Erythroneurini) from China

Yuehua Song; Zhouwei Yuan; Jia Jiang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1042.63593

A new, unusually dark, typhlocybine leafhopper (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae, Erythroneurini) from China

Zookeys. 2021 Jun 4:1042:35-40. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1042.63593. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Yuehua Song¹, Zhouwei Yuan¹, Jia Jiang¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University/ State Engineering Technology Institute for Karst Desertification Control, Guiyang, Guizhou 550001, China Guizhou Normal University Guiyang China.

Abstract

An unusually dark typhlocybine leafhopper (Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae, Erythroneurini) from Guizhou Province, China, is described as a new genus and species, Shibinga gen. nov., and S. nigra sp. nov. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of the new species are provided.

Keywords: Auchenorrhyncha; Homoptera; morphology; new taxa; taxonomy.

Yuehua Song, Zhouwei Yuan, Jia Jiang.