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

• Main Authors: Menglin Wang, Adeline Soulier-Perkins, Yinglun Wang, Thierry Bourgoin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Consortium of European Natural History Museums 2016-03-01
• Series: European Journal of Taxonomy
• Subjects: Taxonomy; new taxa; Pitambara; Serida; Lacusa
• Online Access: http://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/308
• ISSN: 2118-9773

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