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Issue: Vol. 4242 No. 2: 10 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.2.5
Page range: 299–312
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 1

New taxa of Orthoptera (Insecta Tettigoniidae Phaneropterinae) from Madagascar

Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale Scienze Bd 5A, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Orthoptera taxonomy new genus new species tropical Africa

Abstract

The author reports the results of a study on Orthoptera collected in Madagascar and preserved in two European Natural History museums. He describes Symmetroraggea depravata n. sp., Parapyrrhicia longipodex n. sp., Madagascarantia bartolozzii n. gen. n. sp., Mimoscudderia spinicercata n. sp. In addition, he lists new records or unknown taxonomical characters of Xenodus nobilis Carl, 1914 and Parapyrrhicia virilis Carl, 1914.

 

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