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Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870)

Common Macrotona
Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870): Fig. 8. female Eumacrotona simplex Sjöstedt (body length including elytra 28 mm, elytra 20 mm, hind tibiae 13.5 mm). (Otu).
Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870): Fig. 8. female Eumacrotona simplex Sjöstedt (body length including elytra 28 mm, elytra 20 mm, hind tibiae 13.5 mm). (Otu).
Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870): Fig. 8. female Eumacrotona simplex Sjöstedt, head, frontal view. (Otu).
Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870): Fig. 8. female Eumacrotona simplex Sjöstedt, head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870): Fig. 8. female Eumacrotona simplex Sjöstedt, prosternal process. (Otu).
Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870): Fig. 9. female, Macrotona gracilis, whole insect, lateral view of type. (Otu).
Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870): Fig. 10. Macrotona gracilis, dorsal view of head and pronotum. (Otu).

Nomenclature (19)

  • Heteracris australis Walker, 1870: 670.

    Syntype; male; 8399529e-7eba-410c-857d-c09b20eead32; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: Western Australia: Swan River

  • Macrotona lineola Brancsik, 1895: 256.

    Syntype; female; cd0ff66d-8824-4ce6-91f9-7bf431c5e4d1; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); Australia: South Australia: Yorketown

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  • Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870) in Rentz, 1996: 190 Pl. 325.
  • Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870) in Rentz, Lewis, Su & Upton, 2003: 279, 386.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Brancsik, K. (1895) Orthoptera quaedam nova africana et australica. Jahresheft des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines des Trencsiner Comitates, 17–18, 243–262, tab. VII–IX.
  • Dirsh, V.M. (1956) The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(7), 223–356.
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  • For Overseas Pest Research, C. (1982) The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • Key, K.H.L. (1986) A provisional synonomic list of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 24, 1–47.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Records and descriptions of Australian Orthoptera. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 23, 443–457. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1935
  • 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., Lewis, R.C., Su, Y.N. & Upton, M.S. (2003) In A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts. Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. v-ix, 1–419.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1920) Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 20. Acridiodea. Arkiv för Zoologi, 12(20), 1–67. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30230#page/613/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1921) Acridiodea Australica. Monographie der bisher von Australien bekannten Heuschrecken mit kurzen Fühlern. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 62(3), 1–318. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60366953#page/1/mode/1up
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1936) Revision der Australischen Acridiodeen. 2. Monographie. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 15(2), 191 pp. [1935]
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1930) Synonymic notes on Australian Acrididae (Orth.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 598–603.
  • Walker, F. (1870) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich

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