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Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea IX: First report of Xeroderinae (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae) from China

  • Wai-Chun George Ho
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  • Hong Kong Entomological Society, P.O. Box No.73749, Kowloon Central Post Office, Hong Kong, China

Online published: 2021-04-24

Abstract

This paper reports the subfamily Xeroderinae Günther, 1953 and the genus Xenophasmina Uvarov, 1940 for the first time from China; describes a new genus and a new species, Sinoxenophasmina abbreviatum gen. & sp. nov., from Yunnan, China; suggests a new combination and a new synonym, X. bedoti (Redtenbacher, 1908) comb. nov. (= X. similis Redtenbacher, 1908 syn. nov.); and reports two new record species, X. bedoti (Redtenbacher, 1908) comb. nov. and X. fimbriatum (Redtenbacher, 1908), from China.

Cite this article

Wai-Chun George Ho . Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea IX: First report of Xeroderinae (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae) from China[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2021 , 46(2) : 187 -190 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021205

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