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Issue: Vol. 5693 No. 3: 18 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5693.3.9
Page range: 441-446
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

First record of Tropidopolinae (Orthopetra: Acrididae) in China

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; College of Life Sciences; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interactions; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Key Laboratory of Oasis Agricultural Pest Management and Plant Protection Resources Utilization; Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; College of Agriculture; Shihezi University; Shihezi 832003; China
Luoyang 471000; China
Urumqi 830017; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; College of Life Sciences; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interactions; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Orthoptera acrididae Taxonomy new record China

Abstract

We report the first record of the grasshopper subfamily Tropidopolinae in China, the genus Tropidopola Stål, 1873, Tropidopola turanica Uvarov, 1926 and Tropidopola turanica iliensis Bey-Bienko 1948 are discovered in Xinjiang, and provide a detailed morphological description and biological characteristics of the subspecies. And provide a key of part subfamily in Acrididae from China.

 

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How to Cite

Chen, J.-Y., Wang, S.-S., Yang, J.-C., Wan, X. & Li, X.-J. (2025) First record of Tropidopolinae (Orthopetra: Acrididae) in China. Zootaxa, 5693 (3), 441–446. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5693.3.9