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Cooloola dingo Rentz, 1986

Dingo Monster; Blackdown Tableland Monster

Nomenclature (5)

  • Cooloola dingo Rentz, 1986: 234.

    Holotype; male; 96646be7-06b4-49d4-94d8-0a0e27afd35a; deposited at: Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMB); Australia: Queensland: 2 km S of Horseshoe Lookout Blackdown Tableland

  • Cooloola dingo Rentz, 1986 in Rentz, 1996: Pl. 24.
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  • Cooloola dingo Rentz, 1986 in Monteith, 2020: 34.
  • Cooloola dingo Rentz, 1986 in Rentz & Monteith, 2022: 219, 220.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Monteith, G.B. (2020) Searching for Cooloola Monsters: 40 years of discovery of these iconic Queensland insects. Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin, 48, 28–42.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Monteith, G.B. (2022) A review of the Australian endemic genus Cooloola Rentz, 1980, with description of seven new species and summary of biology (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Anostostomatinae: Cooloolini). Australian Entomologist, 49(3), 209–253.
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  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1986) The Orthoptera family Cooloolidae, including descriptions of two new species and observations on biology and food preferences. Systematic Entomology, 11(2), 231–246.
  • 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. (1999) Pearson's Monster, a new secies of Cooloola Rentz from Queensland (Orthoptera: Cooloolidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 8, 25–31.

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