A chance find of a dead mole cricket is proved to be a new species, Gryllotalpa choui, sp. nov., from Yunnan, China. This species, described in the present paper, can be distinguished from all other mole crickets mainly by short abdomen (pronotum longer than half length of abdomen), tegmen nearly round when flattened, large proportional size proportion of the harp, c1 and c2, very short apical field as well as longitudinal veins in this field, vestigial hind wings and a foot-shaped ectophallus.
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1 December 2010
A New Species of the Mole Cricket Genus Gryllotalpa (Orthoptera, Gryllotalpidae) from China
Libin Ma,
Yalin Zhang
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Transactions of the American Entomological Society
Vol. 136 • No. 3 4
December 2010
Vol. 136 • No. 3 4
December 2010
Grylloidea
Gryllotalpinae
morphology
Orthoptera
taxonomy
Xishuangbanna
Yunnan