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Issue: Vol. 1177 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-04-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1177.1.5
Page range: 51–55
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 2

A new genus and species of grasshopper from China (Orthoptera: Acrididae Catantopinae)

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810001 China
Orthoptera Acrididae Catantopinae new genus new species China

Abstract

This paper reports a new genus and species of Catantopinae: Guizhouacris xiai gen et sp. nov. The new genus is similar to Genimen I. Bolivar, 1917, but differs from the latter in: 1) lateral lobes of metasternum separated in apical part and 2) prozona about 2.5 (%) and 2.7 (&) times longer than metazona. The new genus is also similar to Rhinopodisma Mishchenko, 1954 (= Aserratus Huang, 1981), but differs from the latter in: 1) diameter of tympanal aperture longer than half tergum and 2) face not projected between two eyes. Type specimens are deposited in the Museum of Hebei University (MHU).

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