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

  • Mengting Wang 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
  • Jin-Chen Yang Luoyang 471000, Henan Province, China
  • Hanqiang Wang Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
  • Sergey Yu. Storozhenko Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9269-4043
  • Luc Willemse Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NBC), Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0517-9778
  • Laure Desutter-Grandcolas 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7781-3451
  • Jianhua Huang 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9850-5119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1012.3033
Keywords: Acrididae, Oxyinae, Thanmoia, Paratoacris, new synonym, new combination, distribution, new records, China, Vietnam

Abstract

The genera Thanmoia Ramme, 1941 and Paratoacris Li & Jin, 1984 are revised based on the examination of type specimens of all species. As a result, the genus Paratoacris is synonymized with Thanmoia and a new combination is proposed: Thanmoia reticulipennis (Li & Jin, 1984) comb. nov. All five species are re-described and illustrated. A key to species is provided. Thanmoia gustavi Ramme, 1941 is recorded for the first time from China. Distribution patterns of species across Vietnam and China and the phylogenetic position of the genus Thanmoia are briefly discussed.

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2025-09-02
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Wang, M., Yang, J.-C., Wang, H., Storozhenko, S. Y., Willemse, L., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., & Huang, J. (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(1), 106–127. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1012.3033
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