Notes on some corydiid species from China,with the description of a new genus (Blattodea: Corydioidea: Corydiidae) |
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| Authors: | Lu Qiu Zhi-Bin Yang Zong-Qing Wang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, PR China;2. Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Entomological Biopharmaceutical R&3. D, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan, 671000, PR China |
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| Abstract: | This article presents the diversity of cockroach family Corydiidae from China. Epipolyphaga wukong Qiu, Che et Wang, n. gen., n. sp., is described. Habitus and detailed characters of the new taxa are illustrated. A comparison between the new genus and the morphologically similar genus Eupolyphaga Chopard is given. The genus Tivia Walker and the species Eucorydia westwoodi (Gerstaecker) are newly recorded from China. The Corydioidea chapter in Cockroaches of Southeastern China by Liu et al. is revised. A key to genera and a checklist of Chinese Corydiidae are provided. |
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| Keywords: | Epipolyphaga Tivia Holocompsa Eucorydia taxonomy morphology checklist key |
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