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Issue: Vol. 5323 No. 4: 3 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.4.7
Page range: 567-576
Abstract views: 221
PDF downloaded: 24

Two new combinations of Medaurini (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Clitumninae) from Yunnan Province, China

Faculty of Biodiversity Conservation; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China.
Faculty of Biodiversity Conservation; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China.
College of Biological Sciences and Technology; Beijing Forestry University; Beijing 100083 China.
College of Plant Protection; South China Agricultural University; Guangzhou 510642; China.
Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control in Yunnan Province; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China. Faculty of Biodiversity Conservation; Southwest Forestry University; Kunming; Yunnan 650224; China.
Phasmatodea Stick insect new record Interphasma Neomedaura

Abstract

Two new combinations are proposed for Chinese species previously described in the endemic Australian genus Pachymorpha Gray, 1835: Interphasma belocerca (Chen & He, 2008) comb. nov., of which the male and egg are described are illustrated for the first time and Neomedaura arguta (Chen & He, 2008) comb. nov., the first report of the genus Neomedaura Ho, 2020, in China.

 

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