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Issue: Vol. 1581 No. 1: 12 Sep. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1581.1.2
Page range: 37–43
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

A new genus of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae)

Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
Orthoptera Taxonomy Meconematini Alloxiphidiopsis new species

Abstract

In this paper, one new genus, three new species are described: Alloxiphidiopsis gen. n., Alloxiphidiopsis cyclolamina sp. n., Alloxiphidiopsis longicauda sp. n. and Alloxiphidiopsis ovalis sp. n. (Meconematini). Two new combinations are proposed: Alloxiphidiopsis emarginata (Tinkham, 1944) comb. n. and Alloxiphidiopsis irregularis (Bey-Bienko, 1962) comb. n. from Xiphidiopsis. A key to the species is given.

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