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Micropathus tasmaniensis Richards, 1964

Nomenclature (10)

  • Micropathus tasmaniensis Richards, 1964: 218.

    Holotype; male; 0f260d6f-976f-4fed-80ac-a78294fdbcbb; deposited at: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia (ANIC); Australia: Tasmania: Florentine Valley, Hastings, Ida Bay, caves

  • Micropathus tasmaniensis Richards, 1964 in Richards, 1967
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  • Micropathus tasmaniensis Richards, 1964 in Allegrucci, Trewick, Fortunato, Carchini & Sbordoni, 2010
  • Micropathus tasmaniensis Richards, 1964 in Beasley-Hall & Eberhard, 2025: 257. Redescription

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Allegrucci, G., Trewick, S.A., Fortunato, A., Carchini, G. & Sbordoni, V. (2010) Cave crickets and cave weta (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) from the southern end of the world: a molecular phylogeny test of biogeographical hypotheses. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 19(1), 121–130. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.019.0118
  • Beasley-Hall, P.G. & Eberhard, S.M. (2025) Diversity and distribution of cave crickets in the genus Micropathus Walker, 1869, threatened short-range endemics from Tasmanian wet forest (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1012. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1012.3053
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  • Key, K.H.L. (1970) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, crickets). In The Insects of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. 323–347.
  • Mesa, A. & Mesa, R.S. (1971) Citologia y evolución en Macropathinae (Orthoptera-Gryllacridoidea-Rhaphidophoridae). Revista Peruana de Entomología, 14(2), 220–224.
  • Mesa, A., Ferreira, A. & Mesa, R.S. (1968) The karyotype of some Australian species of Macropathinae (Gryllacridoidea - Rhaphidophoridae). Chromosoma, 24(4), 456–466.
  • Richards, A.M. (1964) The Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) of Australia I. Tasmania. Pacific Insects, 6, 217–223.
  • Richards, A.M. (1967) Notes on the biology of two species of Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) in Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 92(3), 273–278. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108670#page/305/mode/1up
  • Richards, A.M. (1968) The cavernicolous status of some species of Macropathinae (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 7, 87–89.
  • Richards, A.M. (1968) The Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) of Australia. Part 6. Two new species from northern Tasmania. Pacific Insects, 10, 167–176. Available at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pi10-1.htm
  • Richards, A.M. (1971) The Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) of Australia Part 9. The distribution and possible origins of Tasmanian Rhaphidophoridae, with descriptions of two new species. Pacific Insects, 13(3-4), 575–587. Available at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pi13-3.htm

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Not explained by Richards. Formed from Tasmania + the Latin suffix ‘-ēnsis’ to form an adjective, which takes the masculine ending following the grammatical gender of the genus.

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