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Revision of the genera Thanmoia Ramme, 1941 and Paratoacris Li & Jin, 1984 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oxyinae), with a proposal of a new generic synonym and a new combination

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Forest Bio-resources and Integrated Pest Management for Higher Education in Hunan Province, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.
  • 2. Luoyang 471000, Henan Province, China.
  • 3. Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
  • 4. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia.
  • 5. Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC), Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
  • 6. Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France.

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Wang, Mengting, Yang, Jin-Chen, Wang, Hanqiang, Storozhenko, Sergey Yu., Willemse, Luc, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Huang, Jianhua (2025): Revision of the genera Thanmoia Ramme, 1941 and Paratoacris Li & Jin, 1984 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oxyinae), with a proposal of a new generic synonym and a new combination. European Journal of Taxonomy 1012: 106-127, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1012.3033, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/3033/13609

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