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Issue: Vol. 3597 No. 1: 24 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3597.1.8
Page range: 57–67
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 2

The crickets of genus Zvenella Gorochov, 1988 (Gryllidae: Podoscirtinae) from China

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin, 130024, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China
Orthoptera Grylloidea Podoscirtini morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Three species of genus Zvenella from China are reviewed and the species Zvenella acutangulata Xia, Liu & Yin, 1991 is redescribed and illustrated. Three additional new species, Zvenella scalpratus sp. nov., Zvenella aequalis sp. nov. and Zvenella decussatus sp. nov., are described and reported from Hainan and Yunnan Provinces, China.

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