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Abstract
The Oriental planthopper genus Metaurus Stål, 1866 is revised to include the type species Metaurus reticulatus Stål, 1866, a new related species Metaurus ramusitis sp. nov. and an unnamed species. Photographs and descriptions of the species are provided together with structural illustrations of male and female genitalia.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for loans of specimens or access to collections: Gunvi Lindberg (NHRS), Davis J. Preston and Scott E. Miller (BPBM), Norman D. Penny (CAS). We also wish to thank Dr Andrew Polaszek, Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, London, UK, for his very kind editorial help with this paper. Three anonymous reviewers are greatly appreciated for their efforts in improving this paper.
The work on which this paper is based was supported by the following sources: National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31101657, 30970400, 31172128), Scientific Survey on the Middle- and Lower-reaches of Lancang (Mekong) River and Grand Shangri-La Area (No. 2008FY110300), National Science Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Research (Special subjects in animal taxonomy, NSFC-J0630964/J0109) and a grant (No. O529YX5105) from the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution of Chinese Academy of Sciences.