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Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869)

Perth Pachysaga
Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869): (from Rentz, D.C.F. 1993). female. (Otu).
Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869): (from Rentz, D.C.F. 1993). female. (Otu).
Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869): Pl. XXII, Fig. 4 (after allotype). female habitus (Pachysaga maculata). (Otu).
Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869): Pl. XXII, Fig. 3 (after allotype). female, dorsal view (Pachysaga maculata; body length 31.8 mm, pronotum 10.7 mm, ovipositor 33.8 mm). (Otu).
Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869): Pl. XXII, Fig. 2 (after type). male, dorsal view (Pachysaga maculata; body length 31.5 mm, pronotum 10.7 mm). (Otu).
Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869): Pl. XXi, Fig. 7 (type). male face (Pachysaga maculata). (Otu).
Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869): Pl. XXI, Fig. 8 (type). male left cercus, dorsal view (Pachysaga maculata). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1516716; f12c787c-8adf-4ed4-8198-ab675254a950: male, lateral view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516716; f12c787c-8adf-4ed4-8198-ab675254a950: male cerci (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1516716; f12c787c-8adf-4ed4-8198-ab675254a950: male pronotum and tegmina, dorsal view (lectotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1520754; 6badc6c9-663d-4918-9eb0-3e4031a08804: female, lateral view (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (15)

  • Ephippiger australis Walker, 1869: 238.

    Syntype; male; f12c787c-8adf-4ed4-8198-ab675254a950; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: Western Australia: Swan River. Syntype; female; 6badc6c9-663d-4918-9eb0-3e4031a08804; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Australia: Western Australia: Swan River

  • Chlorobalius australis (Walker, 1869) in Kirby, 1906: 190.
  • Pachysaga maculata (Hebard, 1922) in Warchalowska-Sliwa, 1998: 160.
  • Pachysaga australis (Walker, 1869) in Rentz, 2010: 78.

References (13)

  • Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 2, 225–423 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci02britrich
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Caudell, A.N. (1908) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 72, 1–43 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105244#page/339/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1922) Studies in Malayan, Melanesian and Australian Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 74, 121–299, pl. 11–22. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca74acad
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1924) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum, 3. Some less known or new genera and species of subfamilies Tettigoniidae and Decticinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 71(3-4), 492–537.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Balderson, J. (1979) Catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 15, 1–24.
  • Bailey, W.J. & Stephen, R.O. (1984) Auditory acuity in the orientation behaviour of the bushcricket Pachysagella australis Walker (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Saginae). Animal Behaviour, 32, 816–829.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1993) The Austrosaginae, Zaprochilinae and Phasmodinae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 2, i-x, 1–386.
  • Ueshima, N. (1993) Karyotypes and meiosis of Phasmodinae, Zaprochilinae and Austrosaginae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 2.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1996) Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia. CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1–284.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (1998) Karyotype characteristics of katydid orthopterans (Ensifera, Tettigoniidae), and remarks on their evolution at different taxonomic levels. Folia Biologica (Kraków), 46, 143–176.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (2010) A Guide to the Katydids of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 214 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Gd8CM_wn7pMC

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1056