Description of three new species of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the east of Qinghai-Tibet plateau, China

Jun-Jie Ge; Yetchom Fondjo Jeanne Agrippine; Sheng-Quan Xu; Huateng Huang

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5068.3.6

Description of three new species of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the east of Qinghai-Tibet plateau, China

Zootaxa. 2021 Nov 17;5068(3):419-427. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.3.6.

Authors

Jun-Jie Ge¹, Yetchom Fondjo Jeanne Agrippine², Sheng-Quan Xu³, Huateng Huang⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of life sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China, 710119.. gejunjie@snnu.edu.cn.
² Zoology Unit, Laboratory of Biology and Physiology of Animal Organisms, Graduate School of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, University of Douala, Cameroon.. jayetchomfondjo@gmail.com.
³ College of life sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China, 710119.. xushengquan@snnu.edu.cn.
⁴ College of life sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China, 710119.. huanghuateng@snnu.edu.

PMID: 34810700
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.3.6

Abstract

The grasshopper Subfamily Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Eumastacidae) is widely distributed in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia. This paper describes three new species: Ptygomastax nihilsulcus Ge, sp. nov. Phytomastax pentaspinula Ge, sp. nov. and Pentaspinula unispinula Ge, sp. nov. of the subfamily from the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, along with an updated identification key of species of the related genera. Detail figures of the body and genitalia of the new species are also provided.

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Grasshoppers*
Orthoptera*
Tibet