Pygmy grasshoppers of the genus Formosatettix Tinkhamı 1937 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Tetriginae)
Author
Wei, Shi-Zhen
Author
Deng, Wei-An
Author
Lu, Xiang-Yi
text
Journal of Natural History
2019
2019-06-13
53
17
1001
1022
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2019.1609113
7fbae291-93dd-4f4d-8f37-099844617aaf
1464-5262
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Formosatettix tianmushanensis
Zheng and Liı 2001
Formosatettix tianmushanensis
, 2001
, p.
162
–
163 (
holotype
–
♀
,
China
:
Zhejiang
,
Tianmushan
; in
Nankai University
,
China
; examined)
.
Formosatettix xiai
Zheng, Shi and Yin, 2015
, p.
146
(
holotype
–
3,
paratypes
–
432 ♀
,
China
:
Zhejiang
,
Tianmushan
; in
Hebei
University
,
China
; not examined; syn. nov.).
Notes
We examined the
holotype
of
F. tianmushanensis
and compared with type specimen photographs and the description of
F. xiai
(
Zheng et al. 2015
)
and found that morphology and distribution are completely identical in both taxa. Thus, we synonymise
F. xiai
with
F. tianmushanensis
.