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Published: 2007-04-02
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The Protura from Xinjiang, Northwestern China

Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China.
Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China.
Arthropoda Protura new genus new species Xinjiang China

Abstract

One new genus (Nanshanentulus gen. n.), three new species (Hesperentomon septemseum sp. n., Nanshanentulus urumchiensis sp. n. and Eosentomon xinjiangense sp. n.), one new record species (Gracilentulus fjellbergi Szeptycki, 1993) to Chinese fauna and one undetermined species Eosentomon sp. are described from Xinjiang Province, Northwestern China

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