species

Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963)

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).

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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