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Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835)

Australian Twig-mimicking Katydid
Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835): female, lateral view. (Otu).
Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835): female, ventro-lateral view. (Otu).
Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835): female, dorsal view. (Otu).
Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835): label. (Otu).
Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835): male habitus. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male habitus, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male pronotum lateral (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male dorsal (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male stridulatory apparatus (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male pronotum dorsal (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male face (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539817; 48ea20ca-0c94-4428-98c1-ffd25a7dc282, MNHN-EO-ENSIF713: male label (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (14)

  • Prochilus australis Brullé, 1835: 134.

    Holotype; male; MNHN-EO-ENSIF713; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Australia: South Australia: Vivvone Bay, Kangaroo Island

  • Prochilus australis Brullé, 1835 in Serville, 1838: 384.
  • ... Show all ... (10)
  • Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835) in Rentz, 2010: 186.
  • Zaprochilus australis (Brullé, 1835) in Rentz, 2015

Nomenclature references (14)

  • Blanchard, C.É. (1840) Histoire naturelle des Insectes Orthoptères, Névroptères, Hémiptères, Hyménoptères, Lépidoptères et Diptères. In Histoire Naturelle des Animaux. P. Dumenil, Paris. pp. Orthoptères pp. 1–44. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/histoirenaturell00blan
  • Brullé, G.A. (1835) Cinquième Ordre. Orthoptères. In Histoire naturelle des insectes: Vol. 9 [1] (5). Société bibliophile, Paris. pp. 1–225 [225–416 in 1836]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79090#page/9/mode/1up
  • ... Show all ... (10)
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Balderson, J. (1979) Catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 15, 1–24.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1993) The Austrosaginae, Zaprochilinae and Phasmodinae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 2, i-x, 1–386.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1996) Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia. CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1–284.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (2010) A Guide to the Katydids of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 214 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Gd8CM_wn7pMC
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (2015) A range extension for an Australian katydid, Zaprochilus australis (Tettigoniidae; Zaprochilinae). Zootaxa, 4057(4), 583–584.
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314
  • Ueshima, N. (1993) Karyotypes and meiosis of Phasmodinae, Zaprochilinae and Austrosaginae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 2.
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (1998) Karyotype characteristics of katydid orthopterans (Ensifera, Tettigoniidae), and remarks on their evolution at different taxonomic levels. Folia Biologica (Kraków), 46, 143–176.
  • Westwood, J.O. (1843) Plate LXIII. Descriptions of some orthopterous insects belonging to the section Saltatoria. Arcana Entomologica or Illustrations of New, Rare and Interesting Insects, 2(16), 53–56, pl. 63. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44314#page/383/mode/1up

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