Taxonomic study of the genus Kuvera Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae) with descriptions of two new species from China

By

Zhi, Yan
Yang, Lin
Chen, Xiangsheng

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1141

Pages

41--63

Subjects

Auchenorrhyncha , Eastern Palaearctic region , Oriental region , planthopper , Sino-Japanese region , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1141.84211

 

Abstract

Two new species of genusKuveraDistant, 1906,Kuvera campylotropaZhi & Chen,sp. nov.andK. elongataZhi & Chen,sp. nov., and a new Chinese record,K. basarukiniEmeljanov, 1998, are described and illustrated from China. The females of two other species ofKuvera,K. laticeps(Metcalf, 1936) andK. ussuriensis(Vilbaste, 1968), are described for the first time. An updated identification key to Chinese species ofKuverais given.