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Issue: Vol. 4462 No. 1: 24 Aug. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-08-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.1.8
Page range: 134–138
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One new species of the genus Acosmetura and supplement of Acosmetura emeica Liu & Zhou, 2007 (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Sichuan, China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China
College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, P. R. China
Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Meconematinae

Abstract

In this paper, one new species of the genus Acosmetura Liu, 2000 is described, i.e. Acosmetura longitubera sp. nov. from Sichuan, China, and distinctive characters are illustrated. In addition, supplementary description and morphological photographs of Acosmetura emeica Liu & Zhou, 2007 from Emeishan, Sichuan are provided.

 

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