Planispectrum Rehn & Rehn, 1939

Wai-Chun, George Ho, 2013, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea II: Review of the Dataminae Rehn & Rehn, 1939 (Phasmatodea: Heteropterygidae) of China, with descriptions of one new genus and four new species, Zootaxa 3669 (3), pp. 201-222 : 210

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Planispectrum Rehn & Rehn, 1939
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Genus Planispectrum Rehn & Rehn, 1939 View in CoL

Type-species. Platymorpha cochinchinensis Redtenbacher, 1906: 46 [= Planispectrum cochinchinensis ], by original designation.

= Platymorpha Redtenbacher, 1906: 46 . [Preoccupied by Platymorpha Jacoby, 1888 (Coleoptera) , replacement name proposed by Rehn and Rehn 1939: 484]

= Platyphasma Uvarov, 1940: 116 . [Synonymised by Brock 1995: 96]

Diagnosis. Smallest Dataminae . Unique from other genera by smaller size and flattened body. Antennae slightly longer than profemora, never surpassing apices of protibiae.

Notes. Only two species are found in the southern China. Planispectrum hongkongense Zompro, 2004 from Hong Kong is the most northern distribution range of the genus.

Species included from China:

1. Planispectrum hainanensis (Chen & He, 2008: 359, fig. 322: A–C). [ China (HN)] [ Pylaemenes ] comb. nov.

2. Planispectrum hongkongense Zompro, 2004: 235 , figs. 12: 5 & 135: f. [ China ( HK)]

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