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Issue: Vol. 4695 No. 5: 12 Nov. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.5.4
Page range: 477–482
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New species of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Meconematini) from Sichuan, China

College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, P. R. China
College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P. R. China
Orthoptera Meconematinae Neocyrtopsis Doicholobosa new species Sichuan China

Abstract

Two new species of the subfamily Meconematinae are described, i.e. Neocyrtopsis (Neocyrtopsis) shimianensis Wang & Shi, sp. nov. and Doicholobosa acuta Wang & Shi, sp. nov. from Sichuan, China. All examined specimens are deposited in the Museum of Hebei University.

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