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Issue: Vol. 5474 No. 4: 1 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.4.5
Page range: 427-440
Abstract views: 6
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Discovery of four new Chinese species of Jacobsonina Hebard, 1929 and Blattella Caudell, 1903 (Blaberoidea: Blattellidae)

College of Plant Protection; Southwest University; Beibei; Chongqing 400715; China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education); Southwest University; Chongqing 400715; China
College of Plant Protection; Southwest University; Beibei; Chongqing 400715; China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education); Southwest University; Chongqing 400715; China
College of Plant Protection; Southwest University; Beibei; Chongqing 400715; China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education); Southwest University; Chongqing 400715; China
College of Plant Protection; Southwest University; Beibei; Chongqing 400715; China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education); Southwest University; Chongqing 400715; China
College of Plant Protection; Southwest University; Beibei; Chongqing 400715; China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education); Southwest University; Chongqing 400715; China
Blattodea aBgD DNa barcoding generic diagnosis morphology

Abstract

In this study, specimens of Blattellidae collected in China in recent years are analyzed by combining molecular data and morphological characters, and four new species of Jacobsonina and Blattella are described, Jacobsonina plicata Yao & Che, sp. nov., Jacobsonina subapiculata Yao & Che, sp. nov., Jacobsonina ericonvexa Yao & Che, sp. nov., and Blattella punctoria Yao & Che, sp. nov. Photographs of all new species and the key to Chinese Jacobsonina are also included.

 

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