Orthoptera Species File
species

Cooloola propator Rentz, 1980

Cooloola Monster
CollectionObject 1503595; 92f7fce1-8e26-4080-a5d8-5632041f5146: male (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1503595; 92f7fce1-8e26-4080-a5d8-5632041f5146: male (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Cooloola propator Rentz, 1980: 55.

    Syntype; male; 92f7fce1-8e26-4080-a5d8-5632041f5146; deposited at: Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMB); Australia: Queensland: Cooloola National Park, Rainbow Beach near Poona Lake

  • Cooloola propator Rentz, 1980 in Rentz, 1986: 242.
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  • Cooloola propator Rentz, 1980 in Monteith, 2020: 30.
  • Cooloola propator Rentz, 1980 in Rentz & Monteith, 2022: 219.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Baccetti, B. (1987) In Evolutionary Biology of Orthopteroid Insects (Ellis Horwood series in entomology and acarology). Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, England. 612 pp.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1980) A new family of ensiferous Orthoptera from the coastal sands of southeast Queensland, Australia. Memoirs Queensland Mus., 20(1), 49–64.
  • 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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