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1 July 2010 Revision and New Taxa of Fossil Prophalangopsidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
Jun-Jie Gu, Ge-Xia Qiao, Dong Ren
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Abstract

Taxonomy is investigated and revised for some prophalangopsid insects, yielded by the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan and Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Yixian formations in China. Flexaboilus retinervius Li, Ren & Meng, 2007 and Furcaboilus excelsus Li, Ren & Meng, 2007 are considered as synonyms of Allaboilus gigantus Ren & Meng, 2006. Protaboilus lini Ren & Meng, 2006 is considered a synonym of Aboilus stratosus Li, Ren & Wang, 2007. Hebeihagla Hong, 1982b, Habrohagla Ren, Lu, Guo & Ji, 1995, Grammohagla Meng & Ren, 2006, Trachohagla Meng, Ren & Li, 2006 are considered as synonyms of Parahagla Sharov, 1968; Athehagla Meng & Ren, 2006 is considered a synonym of Ashanga Zherichin 1985. Genera Allaboilus, Circulaboilus Li, Ren & Wang, 2007 and Ashangopsis Lin, Huang & Nel, 2008 are revised. In addition, one new genus Scalpellaboilus gen. nov. and four new species: Scalpellaboilus angustus sp. nov., Circulaboilus priscus sp. nov., Allaboilus robustus sp. nov. and A. hani sp. nov. are described. Some wing venation variability in Prophalangopsidae is briefly discussed.

Jun-Jie Gu, Ge-Xia Qiao, and Dong Ren "Revision and New Taxa of Fossil Prophalangopsidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera)," Journal of Orthoptera Research 19(1), 41-56, (1 July 2010). https://doi.org/10.1665/034.019.0110
Received: 21 December 2009; Accepted: 1 March 2010; Published: 1 July 2010
KEYWORDS
China
Middle Jurassic
new taxa
Prophalangopsidae
synonyms
Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous
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