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Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870)

Common Macrotona

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