Xizicus Gorochov, 1993

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Genus Xizicus Gorochov, 1993

NOTE. This genus was originally divided into two subgenera: Xizicus s. str. and

Eoxizicus Gorochov, 1993 (Gorochov, 1993). Later, Eoxizicus was treated as a separate genus and synonymized with the former genus Axizicus Gorochov, 1998 (Liu & Zhang,

2000). Gorochov et al. (2005) did not agree with the generic status of Eoxizicus and restored

Axizicus as a subgenus of Xizicus s. l. Further, Eoxizicus was considered by different authors either as a genus or as a subgenus of the genus Xizicus (OSF) . In addition, four other subgenera were described: Furcixizicus Gorochov, 2002 , Paraxizicus Liu, 2004 , Haploxizicus Wang ,

Jing, Liu et Li, 2014 and Zangxizicus Wang, Jing, Liu et Li, 2014 (Gorochov, 2002; Liu &

Yin, 2004; Wang et al., 2014). These actions led the question about the volume of Xizicus s. l.

in a very uncertain position, because all the above-mentioned taxa have some general characters but do not provide clear differences between most of them. For example, Gorochov (2019)

suggested that the subgenera Paraxizicus and Haploxizicus may be synonyms of Furcixizicus and Axizicus , respectively. However, the new material, described below, allows me to consider

Paraxizicus as an additional subgenus of this genus.