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Pseudoxyethira Zhou, Yang & Morse, 2016, NEW STATUS

Description

Pseudoxyethira SCHMID, NEW STATUS

Scelotrichia ULMER 1951, 73; type species: Scelotrichia saranganica ULMER 1951 (original designation); preoccupied by Scelotrichia REUTER 1890 in Hemiptera.

Pseudoxyethira SCHMID 1958, 44; type species: Pseudoxyethira asgiriskanda SCHMID 1958 (original designation). Synonymized with Scelotrichia ULMER by WELLS 1990, 373.

Madioxyethira SCHMID 1960, 89; type species: Madioxyethira milinda SCHMID 1960 (original designation). Synonymized with Scelotrichia ULMER by WELLS 1990, 373. Treated as a distinct genus by MALICKY 2006, 241 –264.

Orientalitrichia KOÇAK & KEMAL 2012; inappropriate replacement name for Scelotrichia ULMER.

The genus Pseudoxyethira currently consists of 60 described species from the East Palaearctic (2 species), the Oriental (45 species), the Afrotropical (4 species), and the Australasian (9 species) Regions (MORSE 2015). Two species of this genus are already known in China, P. levis (WELLS & DUDGEON 1990) (Hong Kong) and P. mador (MALICKY 2012) (Mt. Jing-gang-shan, Jiang-xi). In this study, P. thingana from Vietnam was found in southern China, Jiang-xi Province.

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Published as part of Zhou, Lei, Yang, Lian-Fang & Morse, John C., 2016, New species of microcaddisflies from China (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae), pp. 203-219 in Zootaxa 4097 (2) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/265546

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Biodiversity

Family
Hydroptilidae
Genus
Pseudoxyethira
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trichoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxonomic status
stat. nov.
Taxon rank
genus