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Issue: Vol. 1933 No. 1: 14 Nov. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-11-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1933.1.3
Page range: 19–32
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

New species of flightless katydids from South Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae)

Invertebrate Diversity Initiative, CABS, Conservation International Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
University of Stellenbosch, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, JS Marais Building, Victoria St., Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa
Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901- 8520, USA
Orthoptera South African katydids Meconematinae new species

Abstract

Four new species (Amyttacta marakelensis n. sp., A. farrelli n. sp., Paracilacris mordax n. sp., and P. periclitatus n. sp.) of South African Meconematinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) are described, and keys to genera Amyttacta and Paracilacris are provided.

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