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Issue: Vol. 2733 No. 1: 6 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2733.1.4
Page range: 41–48
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescriptions of two incompletely described species of mole cricket genus Gryllotalpa (Grylloidea; Gryllotalpidae; Gryllotalpinae) from China with description of two new species and a key to the known Chinese species

Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, China
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, China
Orthoptera Gryllotalpinae morphology taxonomy identification

Abstract

Gryllotalpa jinxiuensis You et Li, 1990 and Gryllotalpa henana Cai et Niu, 1998, which were incompletely described, are redescribed and illustrated here based on a fuller character set of tegmen veins, stridulatory file and genitalia. Two new species of Gryllotalpa from Henan and Zhejiang, China are also described.

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