A new genus of Rhaphidophorinae (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) from China

  • Yanyan Qin
  • , Huiting Jiang
  • , Xianwei Liu*
  • , Kai Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this article, a new genus Sinorhaphidophora gen. nov., three new combinations: Sinorhaphidophora hainanensis (Bian & Shi, 2016) comb. nov., Neorhaphidophora brevispinula (Bian, Zhu & Shi, 2017) comb. nov., Neorhaphidophora longispinula (Bian, Zhu & Shi, 2017) comb. nov. and three new species of Rhaphidophora Audinet-Serville, 1838: Rhaphidophora quadridentata sp. nov., Rhaphidophora setiformis sp. nov., Rhaphidophora wuzhishanensis sp. nov. are proposed. Keys to all genera of Rhaphidophorinae and all species of Rhaphidophora from China are given. And the female of Rhaphidophora sichuanensis Liu & Zhang, 2002 is also added.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)179-194
Number of pages16
JournalZootaxa
Volume4500
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Oct 2018

Keywords

  • China
  • New genus
  • New species
  • Orthoptera
  • Review
  • Rhaphidophorinae

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