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Issue: Vol. 4565 No. 4: 12 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.4.7
Page range: 531–538
Abstract views: 57
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Two new species of Mesonemoura (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from Yunnan Province of China

Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China.
Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China.
Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China.
Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China.
Plecoptera Mesonemoura new species China

Abstract

Two new species of the nemourid genus Mesonemoura from Yunnan Province of southwestern China are described, M. longiflagellata Xiao & Qian sp. nov. from Pudatcuo National Park of Shangri-la City and M. tumida Qian & Du sp. nov. from Cangshan Mountian of Dali City. The male and female terminalia of the new species are compared to related species.

 

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