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Issue: Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-26
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2018.06.1
Page range: 1-7
Abstract views: 141
PDF downloaded: 110

A new species of the genus Mahanarva Distant, 1909 (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Cercopidae), with a key to the species from Central America and Mexico

Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo. Km 36.5, Carretera México-Texcoco, C.P. 56230, Texcoco, Edo. de México, México
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Ulises Castro-Valderrama

Instituto de Fitosanidad, Entomología-Acarología
BioWorks, Inc., 100 Rawson Rd., Victor, NY 14564, USA
Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biociências, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Laboratório de Entomologia. Av. Ipiranga, 6681, CEP 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo. Km 36.5, Carretera México-Texcoco, C.P. 56230, Texcoco, Edo. de México, México
Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo. Km 36.5, Carretera México-Texcoco, C.P. 56230, Texcoco, Edo. de México, México
Maharnava Ipiranga Heliconia pasture grasses sugarcane Spittlebug.

Abstract

The genus Mahanarva Distant, 1909 (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) currently includes two subgenera: Mahanarva Distant, 1909 with 38 species and six subspecies, and Ipiranga Fennah, 1968 with nine species. The Manaharva species are all from the Americas, and a few species are important pests in pasture grasses and sugarcane. There are no reports of any Manaharva species from North America, including Mexico and areas to the north. Here, a new species is described from Mexico and a key to the species of Mahanarva from Central America and Mexico is proposed.