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Issue: Vol. 5339 No. 3: 30 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.3.7
Page range: 296-300
Abstract views: 233
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A new genus and a new species of pygmy mole cricket from mid-Cretaceous amber in North Myanmar (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tridactyloidea)

College of Agronomy; Sichuan Agricultural University; Chengdu 611130; China
College of Life Sciences; Leshan Normal University; Leshan 614004; China
College of Agronomy; Sichuan Agricultural University; Chengdu 611130; China
Orthoptera Tridactylidae pygmy mole cricket new genus new species Burmese amber

Abstract

This paper describes a new genus with a new species from Burmese amber, namely: Latedactylus longapedi gen. et sp. nov. (Tridactylidae: Tridactylinae). L. longapedi gen. et sp. nov. is erected based on the cylindrical second segment of cercus longer and distinctly slender than the first; metatibia without swimming plates; metatarsus about three times as long as apical spurs of metatibia.

 

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