A newly found insect species (Photo: vast.ac.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - Cooperation between Vietnamese, Japanese, andBelgian entomologists has discovered a number of new insects in Vietnam, arepresentative from the Vietnam National Museum of Nature (VNMN) announced onMay 27.
Scientists from the VNMN and their Japanese peers discovered a newRhyparus species, the second of its kind found in the country, and named itRhyparus vietnamicus Ochi, Kusui, Pham, 2018. Specimens of the insect werecollected in the northern province of Lao Cai, with a body length ranging from7.7 to 7.9 mm.
The VNMN and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, meanwhile,described two new species of the planthopper genus Sogana Matsumura, 1914.
The two are Sogana bachmana Constant & Pham, 2019, found in Bach MaNational Park in the central province of Thua Thien - Hue, and Sogana bavianaConstant & Pham, 2019, found in Hanoi’s Ba Vi National Park. The bodylength of the male specimen of the former is 29 mm, while that of the latter is23.5 mm.
There are currently 13 species of the Sonaga genus in the world, ofwhich five are in Vietnam./.
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