species

Kosciuscola tristis Sjöstedt, 1934

Chameleon Grasshopper

Type specimen

Lectotype; female; 2b254dbc-da98-4fbf-b2ab-0812b079548a; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko

Nomenclature (20)

Kosciuscola tristis Sjöstedt, 1934: 6.
Kosciuscola tristis Sjöstedt, 1934 in Sjöstedt, 1936: 79.
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Kosciuscola tristis Sjöstedt, 1934 in Umbers, Slatyer, Tatarnic, Muschett, Wang & Song, 2021
Kosciuscola tristis Sjöstedt, 1934 in Muschett, Painting, Herberstein & Umbers, 2022: 3.

Nomenclature references (20)

Filshie, B.K., Day, M.F. & Mercer, E.H. (1975) Colour and colour change in the grasshopper, Kosciuscola tristis. Journal of Insect Physiology, 21(11), Supplement: 1763–1770.
Key, K.H.L. & Day, M.F. (1954) A temperature-controlled physiological colour-response in the grasshopper Kosciuscola tristis Sjost. (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 2(3), 309–339.
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Key, K.H.L. (1959) The ecology and biogeography of Australian grasshoppers and locusts. Biogeography & Ecology Australia, 192–210.

Key, K.H.L. (1986) A provisional synonomic list of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 24, 1–47.

Mahoney, P.C., Tatarnic, N.J., O'Hanlon, J.C. & Umbers, K.D.L. (2017) Mate guarding and male mate choice in the chameleon grasshopper Kosciuscola tristis (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Ethology, 35(2), 197–201. Available at http://https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-017-0509-9

Mariño-Pérez, R., Fontana, P. & Woller, D.A. (2018) Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: A new species of Pedies Saussure (Acrididae: Melanoplinae) with comments on the unusual blue coloration on the abdomens of females and live specimen images for three other congenerics. Zootaxa, 4459(3), 551–564.

Muschett, G.E., Painting, C.J., Herberstein, M.E. & Umbers, K.D.L. (2022) Aggressive behaviour in the skyhoppers of the Australian Alps. Evolutionary Ecology, 1–19. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10682-022-10185-6

Muschett, G.R., Umbers, K.D.L. & Herberstein, M.E. (2017) Within-season variability of fighting behaviour in an Australian alpine grasshopper. PLoS One, 12(4), 1–21. Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0171697

Rehn, J.A.G. (1957) In Grasshoppers and Locusts (Acridoidea) of Australia. Family Acrididae: Subfamily Cyrtacanthacrldinae tribes Oxyini, Spathosternini and Praxibulini. CSIRO, Melbourne.

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. (1934) Neue australische Acrididen. Arkiv för Zoologi, 26(9), 1–9.

Sjöstedt, Y. (1936) Revision der Australischen Acridiodeen. 2. Monographie. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 15(2), 191 pp. [1935]

Slatyer, R.A., Nash, M.A., Miller, A.D., Endo, Y., Umbers, K.D.L. & Hoffmann, A.A. (2014) Strong genetic structure corresponds to small-scale geographic breaks in the Australian alpine grasshopper Kosciuscola tristis. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, 204. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/204

Song, H., Muschett, G.R., Woller, D.A., Slatyer, R.A., Tatarnic, N.J. & Umbers, K.D.L. (2021) Taxonomic notes on the Australian skyhopper genus Kosciuscola Sjöstedt (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oxyinae). Zootaxa, 5071(1), 118–130.

Tatarnic, N.J., Umbers, K.D.L. & Song, H. (2013) Molecular phylogeny of the Kosciuscola grasshoppers endemic to the Australian alpine and montane regions. Invertebrate Systematics, 27(3), 307–316. Available at http://schistocerca.org/PDF/Tatarnic%20et%20al.%202013%20%28Invert%20Syst%29.pdf

Umbers, K.D.L. (2011) Turn the temperature to turquoise: Cues for colour change in the male chameleon grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis) (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Insect Physiology, 57(9), 1198–1204.

Umbers, K.D.L., Herberstein, M.E. & Madin, J.S. (2013) Colour in insect thermoregulation: Empirical and theoretical tests in the colour-changing grasshopper, Kosciuscola tristis. Journal of Insect Physiology, 59(1), 81–90. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191012002685#

Umbers, K.D.L., Slatyer, R.A., Tatarnic, N.J., Muschett, G.R., Wang, S. & Song, H. (2021) Phylogenetics of the skyhoppers (Kosciuscola) of the Australian Alps: evolutionary and conservation implications. Pacific Conservation Biology. Available at https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/PC21015
Umbers, K.D.L., Tatarnic, N.J., Holwell, G.I. & Herberstein, M.E. (2013) Bright turquoise as an intraspecific signal in the chameleon grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67(3), 439–447. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-012-1464-7#page-1