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Issue: Vol. 4097 No. 1: 30 Mar. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-03-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.12
Page range: 143–146
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 1

Discovery of a new species and key to all known species of the genus Aalatettix Zheng & Mao (Orthoptera, Tetrigoidea, Tetrigidae) from China

College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan 614004,China
Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai 810001, China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
Orthoptera Tetrigoidea Tetrigidae

Abstract

The genus Aalatettix Zheng & Mao, 2002 (Orthoptera, Tetrigoidea, Tetrigidae) contains 9 valid species in China (Zheng & Mao, 2002; Zheng, Cao & Chen, 2011; Zheng, Lin & Zhang, 2013; Zheng, 2014a; Zheng, 2014b; Zheng & Lin, 2015; Zheng, Shi & Yin, 2015). During the identification of pygmy grasshopper specimens collected from Taiwan, China in 1998, a new species of the genus Aalatettix Zheng & Mao, 2002 was found and described below. A key to all known species of the genus is given in this paper. The type specimens are deposited in the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, China.

 

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