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Issue: Vol. 4604 No. 2: 14 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.2.7
Page range: 349–358
Abstract views: 78
PDF downloaded: 1

An annotated checklist of the Indian species of the band-winged grasshopper genus  Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852 (Orthoptera: Acrididae)  with description of a new species 

Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, 'M' Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, West Bengal, India.
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, 'M' Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, West Bengal, India.
Center für Naturkunde, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther King Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
Orthoptera Acridoidea Taxonomy Sphingonotini Namdapha National Park

Abstract

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) changlangensis sp. nov.  is a new species of  Sphingonotus  described from Namdapha National Park, Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. An annotated checklist of members of the genus  Sphingonotus occurring in India is provided.

 

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