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Issue: Vol. 4585 No. 3: 15 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.10
Page range: 561–572
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 2

Three new species of genus Mecopoda Serville, 1831 from China (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Mecopodinae)

Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Department of Business, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310051, China.
Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
Orthoptera China Mecopoda taxonomy song COI

Abstract

Only six species or subspecies of genus Mecopoda have been recorded with two species recorded from China prior to this study. We describe 3 new species, M. hainanensis He sp. nov., M. fallax He sp. nov. and M. marmorata He sp. nov. from Yunnan and Hainan. Although M. hainanensis is similar to M. niponensis, M. fallax is similar to M. elongata elongata, their songs can be used for identification. The result of molecular study also supports the validity of three new species. The type specimens are deposited in Museum of Biology, East China Normal University (ECNU).

 

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