Planthoppers, Fulgoromorpha,
are small members of the True Bug order Hemiptera, which also includes
Aphids, Cicadas and Shield Bugs, amongst other Insects. The genus Paricanoides was erected in 2003 by Ai-Ping Liang of the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to describe two species of Planthoppers, one from southern Vietnam
and one from northern Vietnam and Hainan Island (China).
In a paper published on the Belgian Journal of Entomology on 11
December 2014, Jérôme Constant of the Department of Entomology at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and Hong Thai Pham of the Vietnam National Museum of Nature of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology,
describe a new species of Paricanoides
from the Tam Dao National Park in northern Vietnam.
The new species is named Paricanoides bresseeli
in honour of Joachim Bresseel of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural
Sciences. The species is described from a single male specimen 13.3 mm in
length. It is yellow-brown with red makings, particularly a red ‘horseshoe’
shape on the front of the head. Its wings are clear, with black veins.
Paricanoides bresseeli, dorsal view. Constant & Pham (2014).
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