Meloimorpha Walker, 1870

Wang, Ning, Xie, Can-Hong, Zhang, Tao & Ma, Li-Bin, 2025, New distribution records for Phalangopsinae, Indozacla Gorochov, 2018, and Meloimorpha cincticornis Walker, 1870 in China, along with a report on a new species Indozacla dorsiglaber Ma & Wang sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae), Zootaxa 5653 (4), pp. 553-562 : 556

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5653.4.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2E351AA9-874B-4829-9745-768A737A9E80

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15837687

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB8201-FFA5-5A08-5BA2-FE23FCD7FCD7

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scientific name

Meloimorpha Walker, 1870
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Genus Meloimorpha Walker, 1870 View in CoL

Chinese name: ḛDzā

Meloimorpha Walker, 1870: 468 View in CoL ; Desutter-Grandcolas & Jaiswara, 2012: 6 View Cited Treatment

Type species: Meloimorpha cincticornis Walker, 1870 View in CoL

Diagnosis

Body size small to medium; eyes small and protruding, ocellus absent. Frontal rostrum narrow, about half the width of the scape of the antenna; the end section of the maxillary palpus curved and slightly widened at the end. Pronotum transversely broad with transverse grooves. Anterior margin of the forewings narrowed, and the posterior margin distinctly widened. The mirror larger, almost as wide as the forewing. Anterior tibiae with tympana; posterior femora slender; posterior tibiae with three inner dorsal spurs.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phalangopsidae

SubFamily

Cacoplistinae

Loc

Meloimorpha Walker, 1870

Wang, Ning, Xie, Can-Hong, Zhang, Tao & Ma, Li-Bin 2025
2025
Loc

Meloimorpha

Desutter-Grandcolas, L. & Jaiswara, R. 2012: 6
Walker, F. 1870: 468
1870
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