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Issue: Vol. 4568 No. 1: 19 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.1.13
Page range: 194–200
Abstract views: 80
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Two new species of Sphaeronemoura (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from Yunnan Province of China

Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China.
Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China.
Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China.
Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China.
Plecoptera Stoneflies S. kunmingensis Qian & Du sp. n. S. campylura Qian & Du sp. n. China

Abstract

Two new species of the nemourid genus Sphaeronemoura are described based on males and females collected from Yunnan Province of southwestern China. The new taxa include S. kunmingensis Qian & Du sp. nov. and S. campylura Qian & Du sp. nov.. The new species are compared to related taxa.

 

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