A new species of Thaia Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species

摘要

The typhlocybine genus Thaia Ghauri, 1962 belongs to the tribe Erythroneurini with Thaia oryzivora Ghauri, 1962 as its type species. The genus consists of three subgenera: Niema Dworakowska, 1979, Nlunga Dworakowska, 1974 and Thaia Ghauri, 1962. Up to the present, 34 described species are distributed throughout the Oriental and Afrotropical regions, and some species are pests of rice. (Ghauri 1962; Song & Li 2008).So far, nine species are known in China. In the present work, a new species from Yunnan province is described and illustrated with a key to known species from China. Materials studied in this paper are deposited in the Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, China (GUGC).