Tibetxya, Cao & Yang & Shen & Yin, 2021

Cao, Cheng-Quan, Yang, Kai-Yan, Shen, Zi-Hao & Yin, Zhan, 2021, A new genus and a new species of pygmy mole cricket from China (Orthoptera: Tridactylidae), Zootaxa 5005 (1), pp. 91-94 : 91

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.1.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0D65185D-906A-4DD8-90B9-4CA155587138

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5150584

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Tibetxya
status

gen. nov.

Tibetxya View in CoL gen. nov.

Type species: Tibetxya motuoensis sp. nov. ( Fig.1 A–E View FIGURES 1 , Fig. 2 A–H View FIGURES 2 ).

Diagnosis: The new genus lacking swimming plates at metatibia and metatarsus degenerated is allied to Paraxya Cao, Chen & Yin, 2019 , but differs from latter by length of head and pronotum longer than tegmen, tegmen with Sc vein and R vein, length of metatibia 2.3 times length of apical spurs and 8 th segment of antennae not narrow in base. The new genus is also allied to Xya Latreille, 1809 , but differs from latter by the metatibia lacking swimming plates.

Etymology: The new genus is name Tibet, Tibetxya showing the new genus from Tibet, China.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tridactylidae

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