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Abstract
Two new species, Onychiurus gulinensis sp. nov. and Onychiurus antennalis sp. nov., are described from Eastern China. The two new species share most features with Onychiurus, but possess 11 chaetae in the distal whorl of tibiotarsus (seven or nine in Onychiurus), granulated sense clubs on Ant. III organ (smooth in Onychiurus) and three manubrial rows of chaetae present (two in Onychiurus). Here we place the two new species in Onychiurus rather than erect a new genus and the three characters considered to be unstable in many genera are discussed.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (31101622), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (1107020837) and Knowledge Innovation Programs of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-BR-16) who supported the study, to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris who supported some of the laboratory work, and to Dr Louis Deharveng and Prof. Wanda M. Weiner for their invaluable help.