Abstract
The three Chinese species of the tropiduchid genus Epora Walker are revised, including one new species, E. biprolata sp. nov. from Hainan Province, China. Morphological description or diagnoses and illustrations for Chinese Epora and an identificationkey for all nine species worldwide are provided. The tropiduchid genus Epora was established by Walker (1857) to accommodate a single species, E. subtilis Walker from Borneo. Up to now eight species have been reported worldwide, all restricted to the Oriental Region (Walker 1857, Distant 1906, 1912, 1916, Pierce 1909, Melichar 1915, Baker 1927, Metcalf 1954, Fennah 1970, 1978, Chou & Wang 1985, Qin & Men 2010), including two species from south China, E. hainanensis Chou & Wang and E. bilemisca Qin & Men. In this paper, another new species, E. biprolata sp. nov. is described from Hainan, China and diagnoses and illustrations for Chinese Epora are provided. A key to the known species in Epora is given.
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