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Species

Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892

Giant Spiny Forest katydid
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: male nymph. (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: male nymph. (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: male nymph, frontal view. (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: male from Gap Creek (Queensland). (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: female from Gap Creek (Queensland), in defense position. (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: male (from Caudell 1916, Genera Insectorum 171). (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: male nymph (from Caudell 1916, Genera Insectorum 171; as Phoberodema redtenbacheri). (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: Fig. 4 A B. scanning electron micrographs of stridulatory file. (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: Fig. 8 A. pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: Fig. 12. oscillogram of male calling song (repeated erratically at night). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1531811; c871c5e7-360d-412c-9d9e-1e07ddfe43fc: male habitus, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531811; c871c5e7-360d-412c-9d9e-1e07ddfe43fc: male close-up of body, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531811; c871c5e7-360d-412c-9d9e-1e07ddfe43fc: male close-up of body, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531811; c871c5e7-360d-412c-9d9e-1e07ddfe43fc: labels (male holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531811; c871c5e7-360d-412c-9d9e-1e07ddfe43fc: male habitus, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1531811; c871c5e7-360d-412c-9d9e-1e07ddfe43fc: male close-up of body, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (14)

  • Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892: 189, 192.

    Holotype; male; c871c5e7-360d-412c-9d9e-1e07ddfe43fc; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); Australia: Queensland

  • Phoberodema redtenbacheri Brancsik, 1897: 80, 81.

    Holotype; male; b3a87ccf-641f-44d6-970d-2af670afd9df; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: Queensland

  • Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892 in Rentz, 2010: 145.
  • Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892 in Wilson & Rentz, 2016

References (11)

  • Redtenbacher, J. (1892) Monographische Uebersicht der Mecopodiden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 42, 183–224. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48404#page/305/mode/1up
  • Brancsik, K. (1897) Series Orthopterorum novorum. Jahresheft des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines des Trencsiner Comitates, 19–20, 52–85, tab. I–III.
  • 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
  • Caudell, A.N. (1916) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Mecopodinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 171, 1–32, pls 1–4. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105422#page/57/mode/1up
  • Beier, M. (1966) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Meconematinae, Mecopodinae, Phyllophorinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 9, 247–342 pp.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Balderson, J. (1979) Catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 15, 1–24.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2005) The Smaller Majority. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 278 pp.
  • Rentz, D.C.F., Su, Y.N. & Ueshima, N. (2005) Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae. The genus Phricta Redtenbacher (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Pseudophyllinae; Phrictini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 131(1), 131–158.
  • 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
  • Wilson, G.W. & Rentz, D.C.F. (2016) First observation in nature of effective predator defence behaviour in the spiny forest katydid 'Phricta spinosa' Redtenbacher (Orthoptera: Pseudophyllinae: Phrictini). Australian Entomologist, 43(1), 1–4.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1012