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Issue: Vol. 4471 No. 3: 6 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.3.10
Page range: 585–589
Abstract views: 50
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Discovery of a new species of Inocelliidae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) in an altitude of nearly 3500 m in China

College of Life Science and Technology, Hubei Engineering University, Xiaogan 432000, China.
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Department of Medical Parasitology, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Natural History Museum, 2nd Zoological Department, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria. Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Neuroptera snakefly I. crassicornis species group taxonomy East Asia

Abstract

A new snakefly species of the family Inocelliidae is described from China: Inocellia occidentalis sp. nov. The new species belongs to the Inocellia crassicornis species group.

 

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