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Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963)

CollectionObject 2052032; 67f4eae3-dc8a-4391-b565-b77608b59387, NHMUK015982252: Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963). Dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2052032; 67f4eae3-dc8a-4391-b565-b77608b59387, NHMUK015982252: Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963). Dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2052032; 67f4eae3-dc8a-4391-b565-b77608b59387, NHMUK015982252: Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963). lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2052032; 67f4eae3-dc8a-4391-b565-b77608b59387, NHMUK015982252: Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 09c60b3d-1a88-4b09-859d-4c07fdf7b12e; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: New South Wales: 9 miles WNW of Monia Gap

Nomenclature (14)

  • Moraba virgo Key, 1963 in White, Cheney & Key, 1963: 4.

    Holotype; female; 09c60b3d-1a88-4b09-859d-4c07fdf7b12e; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: New South Wales: 9 miles WNW of Monia Gap

  • Moraba virgo Key, 1963 in White, 1966
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  • Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963) in Kearney, Blacket, Strasburg & Moritz, 2006
  • Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963) in Kearney, 2018: 209, 239.

Nomenclature references (14)

  • Bullini, L. & Nascetti, G. (1987) Speciation by hybridization in orthopteroid insects. In B. Baccetti (Ed.). Evolutionary Biology of Orthopteroid Insects (Ellis Horwood series in entomology and acarology). Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, England. pp. 134–147.
  • Hewitt, G.M. (1975) A new hypothesis for the origin of the parthenogenetic grasshopper Moraba virgo. Heredity, 34, 117–136.
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  • Honeycutt, R.L. & Wilkinson, P. (1989) Electrophoretic variation in the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba virgo and its sexual relatives. Evolution, 43, 1027–1044.
  • Kearney, M.R. (2018) The matchstick grasshopper genus Warramaba (Morabidae: Morabinae): a description of four new species and a photographic guide to the group. Zootaxa, 4482(2), 201–244.
  • Kearney, M.R., Blacket, M.J., Strasburg, J.L. & Moritz, C. (2006) Waves of parthenogenesis in the desert: evidence for the parallel loss of sex in a grasshopper and a gecko from Australia. Molecular Ecology, 15, 1743–1748. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02898.x
  • Key, K.H.L. (1976) A generic and supergeneric classification of the Morabinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacidae), with description of the type species and a bibliography of the subfamily. Australian Journal of Zoology, 37 (Suppl.), 1–185, 318 figs.
  • White, M.J.D. & Contreras, N. (1979) Cytogenetics of the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba (formerly Moraba) virgo and its bisexual relatives. V. Interaction of W. virgo and a bisexual species in geographic contact. Evolution, 33, 85–94.
  • White, M.J.D. & Contreras, N. (1981) Chromosome architecture of the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba virgo and its bisexual ancestors. Chromosomes Today, 7, 165–175.
  • White, M.J.D. (1966) Further studies on the cytology and distribution of the Australian parthenogenetic grasshopper Moraba virgo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 73, 383–398. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40805613/#page/427/mode/1up
  • White, M.J.D., Cheney, J. & Key, K.H.L. (1963) A parthenogenetic species of grasshopper with complex structural heterozygosity (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology, 11, 1–19.
  • White, M.J.D., Contreras, N., Cheney, J. & Webb, G.C. (1977) Cytogenetics of the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba (formerly Moraba) virgo and its bisexual relatives. II. Hybridization studies. Chromosoma, 61, 127–148.
  • White, M.J.D., Dennis, E.S., Honeycutt, R.L., Contreras, N. & Peacock, W.J. (1982) Cytogenetics of the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba virgo and its bisexual relatives. 9. The ribosomal RNA cistrons. Chromosoma, 85(2), 181–199.
  • White, M.J.D., Webb, G.C. & Cheney, J. (1972) Cytogenetics of the parthenogenetic grasshopper Moraba virgo and its bisexual relatives. Chromosoma, 40(2), 199–212.
  • White, M.J.D., Webb, G.C. & Contreras, N. (1980) Cytogenetics of the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba (formerly Moraba) virgo and its bisexual relatives. VI. DNA replication patterns of the chromosomes. Chromosoma, 81(2), 213–248.
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Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963)

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