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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 4: 6 Mar. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.4.10
Page range: 586–591
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First report of a wingless species of Ornebius—a scaly cricket usually with winged males (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae: Mogoplistinae)

School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Orthoptera Mogoplistidae Mogoplistinae

Abstract

A new species, Ornebius apterus sp. nov., is described from Guangdong, China. This wingless species is monophyletic with Ornebius spp., which are all singing species. The type specimens are deposited in East China Normal University, Biology of History Museum (ECNU).

 

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