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Issue: Vol. 5068 No. 3: 17 Nov. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.3.6
Page range: 419-427
Abstract views: 398
PDF downloaded: 30

Description of three new species of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the east of Qinghai-Tibet plateau, China

College of life sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119.
Zoology Unit, Laboratory of Biology and Physiology of Animal Organisms, Graduate School of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, University of Douala, Cameroon.
College of life sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119.
College of life sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119.
Orthoptera Gomphomastacinae Ptygomastax Phytomastax Pentaspinula new species taxonomy Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau China

Abstract

The grasshopper Subfamily Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Eumastacidae) is widely distributed in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia. This paper describes three new species: Ptygomastax nihilsulcus Ge, sp. nov. Phytomastax pentaspinula Ge, sp. nov. and Pentaspinula unispinula Ge, sp. nov. of the subfamily from the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, along with an updated identification key of species of the related genera. Detail figures of the body and genitalia of the new species are also provided.

 

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