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Issue: Vol. 3326 No. 1: 28 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3326.1.3
Page range: 49–61
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

First record of the genus Loxopsis from the Philippines with the discovery of two new species (Phasmida, Diapheromeridae, Necrosciinae)

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautier Street 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Phasmatodea Stick insect Oriental region wings descriptions

Abstract

The genus Loxopsis Westwood, 1859 is reported from the Philippines for the first time. Two new species on the island of Mind-anao are described and figured from both sexes: Loxopsis sarmientoi n. sp. from Mt. Parker and Loxopsis tboli n. sp. from LakeSebu. The specimen identified as Loxopsis tuberculata Redtenbacher, 1908 by Klante (1975) represents a different, unde-scribed species which belongs in Paraloxopsis Günther, 1932. The concerned specimen is briefly described and illustrated. A key to the species of Loxopsis Westwood, 1859 is presented

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