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Issue: Vol. 4171 No. 1: 27 Sept. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.10
Page range: 183–186
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One new species of the subgenus Xizicus (Zangxizicus) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China
Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Meconematinae new species Xizicus (Zangxizicus) Xizang China

Abstract

The paper reports one new species of the tribe Meconematini, Xizicus (Zangxizicus), curvus Chang & Shi sp. nov., and supplies the character photographs of the new species and Xizicus(Zangxizicus) tibeticus Wang, Jing, Liu & Li, 2014.

 

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