Abstract
This study describes and illustrates a new species of Isocapnia Banks, 1938, I. niuerheensis Yang & Du, sp. nov., from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China with a comparison between morphologically related species I. apicispina Chen & Du, 2017 and I. arcuata Zhiltzova, 1975.
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