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Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843

King's Park Stick Katydid
Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843: male. (Otu).
Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843: male. (Otu).
Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843: male head and pronotum. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1516894; 11943ff2-cd25-4c79-9a6e-2fe96f1333c2: female (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516894; 11943ff2-cd25-4c79-9a6e-2fe96f1333c2: female head and pronotum (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516894; 11943ff2-cd25-4c79-9a6e-2fe96f1333c2: female basal and apical parts of the ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (14)

  • Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843: 56.

    Holotype; female; 11943ff2-cd25-4c79-9a6e-2fe96f1333c2; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Western Australia, King George Sound

  • Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843 in Walker, 1870: 467.
  • Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843 in Rentz, 2010: 188.
  • Phasmodes ranatriformes [sic] Westwood, 1843 (misspelling of Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843)

References (13)

  • 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
  • Walker, F. (1870) 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
  • Sharp, D. (1895) Insects. Part 1. (Chapters 12-14 Orthoptera continued: Acridiidae, Locustidae, Gryllidae). Cambridge Natural History, 5, 279–329. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64361
  • Burr, M. (1899) Mimicry in Orthoptera. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 11, 48–50. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100459#page/58/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Handlirsch, A.P.J. (1922) Überordnung: Orthoptera (Latr.) m. (Geradflügler). In Handbuch der Entomologie, (Schröder, C.). Gustav Fischer, Jena. Vol. 3, 443–464 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79383#page/29/mode/1up
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Balderson, J. (1979) Catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 15, 1–24.
  • Lakes-Harlan, R., Bailey, W.J. & Schikorski, T. (1991) The auditory system of an atympanate bushcricket Phasmodes ranatriformes (Westwood) (Tettigoniidae: Orthoptera). Journal of Experimental Biology, 158, 307–324. Available at http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/158/1/307.pdf
  • 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.
  • Ueshima, N. (1993) Karyotypes and meiosis of Phasmodinae, Zaprochilinae and Austrosaginae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 2.
  • Bailey, W.J. (1998) The mating biology of Phasmodes ranatriformis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), a mute genus of bushcricket from Western Australia. J. R. Soc. West. Aust., 81, 149–155.
  • 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.
  • 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

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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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