Asceles bidentatus ( Chen & He, 2008 ) Chen & He, 2008

Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, Zootaxa 4150 (3), pp. 314-340 : 315-316

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BD5B310D-18A4-4E08-8DA0-F6E42836EDE7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080990
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A3CF83A-DA56-FFF1-B08E-F963FC2EFE9F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Asceles bidentatus ( Chen & He, 2008 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Asceles bidentatus ( Chen & He, 2008) comb. nov. T

Aruanoidea bidentata, Chen & He, 2008: 111 View in CoL , figs. 77a–d.

Types. Holotype: Ƌ, 620–650m, Mengla , Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, 10.VI.1959, Zhang Fa-Cai ( IZCAS) ; Paratypes: 1♀, 620–650m, Mengla , Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, 10.VI.1959, Pu Fu-Ji ( IZCAS) ; 1Ƌ, Jianfengling , Hainan, China, 8.IX.1982, Liang Cheng-Feng ( IZCAS) .

Notes. Chen and He (2008: 111) placed this species in Aruanoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 , which is a junior synonym of Necroscia Audinet-Serville, 1838 (Hennemann, 1998) . Abdominal structure of both sexes show a close relationship with Asceles Redtenbacher, 1908 and it is appropriate to place this species in Asceles . Distribution. Hainan (Jianfengling) and Yunnan (Mengla), China.