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Metaballus frontalis (Walker, 1869)

common marauding katydid

CollectionObject 1517118; cd33a19b-26ca-4df1-9f8c-b00ded2c8be2: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517118; cd33a19b-26ca-4df1-9f8c-b00ded2c8be2: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517118; cd33a19b-26ca-4df1-9f8c-b00ded2c8be2: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517118; cd33a19b-26ca-4df1-9f8c-b00ded2c8be2: female head and pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517118; cd33a19b-26ca-4df1-9f8c-b00ded2c8be2: female ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517118; cd33a19b-26ca-4df1-9f8c-b00ded2c8be2: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Decticus frontalis Walker, 1869: 264.

    Holotype; female; cd33a19b-26ca-4df1-9f8c-b00ded2c8be2; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Western Australia, King George Sound

  • Chlorobalius frontalis (Walker, 1869) in Kirby, 1906: 190.
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  • Metaballus frontalis (Walker, 1869) in Warchalowska-Sliwa, 1998: 163.
  • Metaballus frontalis (Walker, 1869) in Rentz, 2010: 119.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Caudell, A.N. (1908) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 72, 1–43 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105244#page/339/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
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  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Balderson, J. (1979) Catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 15, 1–24.
  • 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) In A Guide to the Katydids of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 214 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Gd8CM_wn7pMC
  • Ueshima, N. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1990) Karyotypes and meiosis of the Australian Tettigoniidae. In Tettigoniidae: Biology, Systematics and Evolution. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 303–352.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1924) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum, 3. Some less known or new genera and species of subfamilies Tettigoniidae and Decticinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 71(3-4), 492–537.
  • Walker, F. (1869) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 2, 225–423 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci02britrich
  • 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.

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