CollectionObject 1517471; 58916901-ac04-42f6-88a9-da183ca80b2d: female, lateral view with label (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517471; 58916901-ac04-42f6-88a9-da183ca80b2d: female, lateral view with label (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517471; 58916901-ac04-42f6-88a9-da183ca80b2d: female ovipositor (holotype or paratype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; female; 58916901-ac04-42f6-88a9-da183ca80b2d; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Mauritius: Rodriguez

Nomenclature (8)

  • Phisis spinifera Butler, 1876: 410.

    Holotype; female; 58916901-ac04-42f6-88a9-da183ca80b2d; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Mauritius: Rodriguez

  • Phisis spinifera Butler, 1876 in Butler, 1879: 547.
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  • Paradecolya spinifera (Butler, 1876) in Jin & Kevan, 1992: 36.
  • Rodriguesiophisis spinifera (Butler, 1876) in Hugel, 2010: 25.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Butler, A.G. (1876) Preliminary notice of new species of Orthoptera and Hemiptera collected in the island of Rodriguez by the naturalists accompanying the Transit-of-Venus Expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 17, 409–412. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63494#page/423/mode/1up
  • Butler, A.G. (1879) An account of the petrological, botanical, and zoological collections made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez during the transit of Venus Expeditions, carried out by order of her majesty's Government in the years 1874-75. Orthoptera and Hemiptera. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 168, 545–549.
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  • Hugel, S. (2010) New and little known predatory katydids from Mascarene islands (Ensifera: Meconematinae and Hexacentrinae). Zootaxa, 2543, 1–30.
  • Jin, X. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1992) Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the tribe Phisidini (Insecta: Grylloptera: Meconematidae). Theses Zoologicae, 18, 360 pp.
  • Karny, H.H. (1907) Revisio Conocephalidarum. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft Wien, 4(3), 1–114. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/biophp/de/band_det.php?litnr=29695
  • Karny, H.H. (1912) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae subfam. Listroscelinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 131, 1–19 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63155#page/425/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1891) Monographie der Conocephaliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 315–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/459/mode/1up
Asserted distribution
Collection object
Type material

Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Distribution text

endemic to Rodrigues island

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

External links to websites
Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivespinifer, spinifera, spiniferum
Etymology:

Spine-bearing, relating to the spiny forelegs.

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