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Issue: Vol. 5446 No. 4: 2 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5446.4.7
Page range: 553-563
Abstract views: 67
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New and little-known Mantophasmatidae (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) from European amber

Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen 2100; Denmark
Cherepovets State University; Lunacharsky Prospect 5; Cherepovets; Vologda Region; 162600; Russia; Borissiak Paleontological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow; 117647 Russia
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 690022 Vladivostok; Russia
Orthoptera gladiators Raptophasmatinae taxonomy new species resurrected names new combination Eocene Baltic amber Danish amber

Abstract

Two new species of gladiators are described from European amber, namely Raptophasma neli sp. nov. and Adicophasma hafniensis sp. nov. from Baltic and Danish amber, respectively. Two names are resurrected from synonyms: Adicophasma Engel & Grimaldi, 2004, nom. resurr. and A. spinosum Engel & Grimaldi, 2004, nom. resurr. Original combination is restored for A. grylloblattoides Arillo & Engel, 2006, comb. resurr. Adicophasma groehni (Zompro, 2008), comb. nov. is tranferred from Raptophasma to Adicophasma. As a result, the ancient subfamily Raptophasmatinae nowadays consists of one Jurassic monotypic genus and two Eocene genera with six species from European amber.

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