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Issue: Vol. 4455 No. 3: 3 Aug. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-08-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.3.14
Page range: 582–584
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of the genus Pseudocosmetura Liu, Zhou & Bi, 2010 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Sichuan Wanglang National Nature Reserve, China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, 071002, P. R. China.
Sichuan Wanglang National Nature Reserve, Pingwu, 622550, P. R. China
Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Meconematinae

Abstract

The paper described one new species from Sichuan, China. The new species, i.e. Pseudocosmetura wanglangensis sp. nov. differs from the known species of the genus in its distinctive male cercus and epiproct.

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