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Issue: Vol. 4729 No. 4: 31 Jan. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-01-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.4.8
Page range: 575–581
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 5

A contribution to taxonomy of the superfamily Grylloidea Laicharting
from Yunnan, China (Orthoptera: Grylloidea)

College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei Province, China. College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China.
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China.
College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei Province, China. College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China.
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China.
Orthoptera Grylloidea Tarbinskiellus Ornebius Homonemobius Pteronemobius taxonomy China

Abstract

This paper describes four new species of the superfamily Grylloidea from Yunnan, China, including a new species of Gryllidae: Tarbinskiellus sororius Wang, Zhang & Liu sp. nov.; a new species of Mogoplistidae: Ornebius yunnanensis Wang, Zhang & Liu sp. nov.; two new species of Trigonidiidae: Homonemobius curifolis Zhang, Wang & Liu sp. nov. and Pteronemobius (Pteronemobius) truncates Zhang, Wang & Liu sp. nov. In addition, photographs of habitus and genitalia and a distribution map are provided.

 

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