species
Metaballus mesopterus Rentz, 1985
Kangaroo Island Marauding Katydid
Nomenclature (4)
- Metaballus mesopterus Rentz, 1985: 90.
Holotype; male; 0dd7241a-b91b-4610-8924-87a130f393d2; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: South Australia: Kangaroo Is., Vivonne Bay
- Metaballus mesopterus Rentz, 1985 in Ueshima & Rentz, 1990
- Metaballus mesopterus Rentz, 1985 in Warchalowska-Sliwa, 1998: 163.
- Metaballus mesopterus Rentz, 1985 in Rentz, 2010: 120.
Nomenclature references (4)
- Rentz, D.C.F. (1985) The Tettigoniinae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 1, i-ix, 1–384.
- 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.
- 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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