Corresponding author: Ge-Xia Qiao (qiaogx@ioz.ac.cn)
Academic editor: Elison Fabricio B. Lima
The genus
Dang L, Zhao L, Li Y, Qiao G (2022) The genus
Species of
At least eight species of
The descriptions, photomicrograph images and drawings were produced from slide-mounted specimens with an Olympus BX53 and drawing tube. The abbreviations used for the pronotal setae are as follows:
All specimens studied here are deposited in the
School of Bioscience and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology (
Micropterous or apterous (rarely macropterous). Body uniformly brown or bicolored. Head longer than wide, eyes normal or small, ocelli small or absent, postocular setae well developed, pointed or capitate at apex; stylets about one third of head width apart, maxillary bridge present. Antennae eight-segmented, antennal segment III with one or two sense cones, IV with two or three. Pronotum usually smooth, with five pairs of major setae, sometimes
1 | Body bicolored, with pterothorax yellow |
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– | Body uniformly brown |
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2 | Major setae pointed at apex; antennal segment IV with 1+2 sense cones; fore tarsal tooth absent |
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– | Major setae capitate at apex, or at least epimeral setae expanded; antennal segment IV with 1+1 sense cones; fore tarsal tooth present |
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This species was described by
Apterous, body bicolored, with pterothorax yellow (Figs
It includes 1536 bp with the GenBank accession number
The Latin name “
The new species,
This species was described by
The authors are grateful to Laurence Mound (CSIRO, Australia) for his critical comments and English revision. This work was supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 31702042), the Key Project of Natural Science Basic Research program of Shaanxi Province (2019JZ-34), the Young Talent Fund of the University Association for Science and Technology of Shaanxi, China (20180209) and the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program [Grant No. 2019QZKK0501].