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Issue: Vol. 5507 No. 2: 12 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5507.2.8
Page range: 371-383
Abstract views: 253
PDF downloaded: 25

New species and new synonym of Necrosciini (Phasmatodea: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae) from Hainan Province, China

Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Province; Faculty of Forestry; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China
Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Province; Faculty of Forestry; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China
Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Province; Faculty of Forestry; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China
Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Province; Faculty of Forestry; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China
College of Biological Sciences and Technology; Beijing Forestry University; Beijing 100083 China
Phasmatodea Parasinophasma Huananphasma Chinese stick insects new species

Abstract

This paper describes a new species Parasinophasma ledongense sp. nov. of the genus Parasinophasma Chen & He, 2006. The diagnostic characters of the new species are illustrated, and an identification key is provided for males and females of the genus. In addition, we show that Sipyloidea wuzhishanensis (Chen & He, 2002) is a junior synonym of Huananphasma amicum (Bey-Bienko, 1959).

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