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Issue: Vol. 1516 No. 1: 28 Jun. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-06-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1516.1.6
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of the genus Assamacris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Catantopinae) from Yunnan, China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China College of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Dali University, Dali 671000, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China
Faculty of Conservation Biology, Southwest Forestry College, Kunming 650224, P. R. China
Orthoptera Acrididae Assamacris generic diagnosis new species Yunnan

Abstract

This paper reports on two new species of the genus Assamacris Uvarov, 1942, namely A. trimaculata sp. nov. and A. bidentata sp. nov., from Yunnan, China. All type specimens are deposited in the College of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Dali University (CLDU). A revised generic diagnosis and a key to known species are given.

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