Neohemisphaerius Chen, Zhang & Chang, 2014

Zhang, Zheng-Guang, Chang, Zhi-Min & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2016, Review of the planthopper genus Neohemisphaerius (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Issidae) with description of one new species from China, ZooKeys 568, pp. 13-21 : 14-15

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Issidae

Genus Neohemisphaerius Chen, Zhang & Chang, 2014

Neohemisphaerius Chen, Zhang & Chang, 2014: 80

Type species.

Neohemisphaerius wugangensis Chen, Zhang & Chang, 2014.

Diagnosis.

Body hemispherical, head including eyes wider than pronotum. Vertex about 2.5-3.1 times wider than long, anterior margin more or less straight, posterior margin angulately concave, disc depressed, edges carinated. Frons longer than broad, with median carina, lateral margins slightly elevated. Clypeus convex on disc, distinctly tapering to apex. Pronotum depressed on disc, with two central pits, edges carinated. Mesonotum subtriangular, without median and lateral carinae. Forewings hemispherical, claval suture present. Hind wings rudimentary, veins indistinct. Hind tibiae with 2 lateral teeth. Spinal formula of the hind leg (9,10)-(4,5)-2.

Distribution.

China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan)

Discussion.

The genus Neohemisphaerius is similar to Hemisphaerius Schaum, 1850 and Gergithus Stål, 1870, but it differs from Hemisphaerius in: frons with median carina; clypeus with a hump-shaped process in middle and forewings with claval suture present. It differs from Gergithus in: frons with median carina; forewings with claval suture present; hind wings rudimentary, shorter than half length of forewings.

Key to species of genus Neohemisphaerius