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Vol. 41 No. 4, 2002
Seven New Species of Kinnara
Distant (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Kinnaridae), with Notes on Antennal
Sensilla and Wax Glands
Ai-Ping
Liang
Department
of Entomology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100080, China
Ai-Ping
Liang (2002) Seven new species of the Oriental planthopper
genus Kinnara Distant
(Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Kinnaridae) are described and illustrated: K. albipennis sp. nov.
(southwestern China: Yunnan); K.
fusca sp. nov. (southern China: Hubei, Guangxi), K. ochracea sp. nov. (southern
China: Hainan), K. sabahensis
sp. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah), K.
trimaculata sp. nov. (southern India), K. unimaculata sp. nov. (Thailand:
Trang), and K. vientianensis sp.
nov. (Laos: Vientiane). A diagnosis of the genus and a checklist of all
known species are provided. New data on the ultrastructural morphology
of the antennal sensilla, wax glands, rostral apex, and hind pretarsus
of several species are given from scanning electron microscope
observations. The autapomorphies and plesiomorphies of the genus are
summarized.
Key words: Kinnara,
Kinnaridae, Antennal sensilla, Wax glands, Monophyly.
*Correspondence: Tel: 86-10-62610716. Fax: 86-10-62565689.
E-mail: liangap@panda.ioz.ac.cn
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