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Issue: Vol. 4652 No. 2: 8 Aug. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.14
Page range: 397–400
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A new species of Xestophrys Redtenbacher, 1891 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Copiphorini) from India

Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, Block M, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700053, India
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, Block M, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700053, India
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, Block M, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700053, India
Orthoptera Arunachal Pradesh Conocephalinae Copiphorini Himalaya

Abstract

In the present paper a new species, Xestophrys namtseringa Kumar & Chandra sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Indian Himalaya. Key to all the known species of Xestophrys Redtenbacher, 1891 is also provided. [Zoobank URL: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C18B59A4-30F8-4753-8739-6482D7F5A6B2]

 

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