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Issue: Vol. 4208 No. 3: 16 Dec. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-12-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.3.7
Page range: 293–300
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Two new species of Sphaeronemoura (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from Oriental China

Department of Plant Protection, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, Henan, 453003 China
Department of Plant Protection, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100193, China.
Plecoptera China Sphaeronemoura new species

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Sphaeronemoura of the stonefly family Nemouridae, S. asymmetria sp. n. from Guizhou Province and S. hainana sp. n. from Hainan Province, respectively, are described from China. These findings represent the first record of the genus from these two provinces. Their relationships with other species from adjacent regions are discussed. With the new species described herein, 16 species of Sphaeronemoura are now known.

 

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