A new species of Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae) from China with a key to species
Citation
Ma H (2021). A new species of Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae) from China with a key to species. Biodiversity Data Journal. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.9.e72336 accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-08-12.Description
The myriapod fauna of China is still poorly known and very little attention was paid to the study of Lithobiomorpha, with only 100 species/subspecies hitherto known from the country, among which are only seven species of Hessebius. Here we are describing a new species of the genus Hessebius.A new lithobiid species, Hessebius crassifemoralis sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Hengshui Lake National Nature Reserve, Hebei Province, China. The new species is compared with H. luquensis Qiao, Qin, Ma, Su & Zhang, 2018 from Gansu Province, China. A key to Chinese species, based on adult specimens, is provided. Type specimens and other material are deposited in the School of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hengshui, China.Taxonomic Coverages
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Huiqin Maoriginator
position: Dr
Institute of Myriapodology, School of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hebei 053000
Hengshui
CN
email: mhq008@yahoo.com
Huiqin Ma
metadata author
position: Dr
Institute of Myriapodology, School of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hebei 053000
Hengshui
CN
email: mhq008@yahoo.com
Huiqin Ma
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position: Dr
Institute of Myriapodology, School of Life Sciences, Hengshui University, Hebei 053000
Hengshui
CN
email: mhq008@yahoo.com