Type

Microtettigonia kangaroo Rentz, 1979 type species by original designation of Microtettigonia Rentz, 1979

Nomenclature (5)

  • Microtettigonia Rentz, 1979: 1003.

    type species by original designation Microtettigonia kangaroo Rentz, 1979

  • Microtettigonia Rentz, 1979 in Gorochov, 1995: 50, 143.
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  • Microtettigonia Rentz, 1979 in Rentz, 2001: 463, 467.
  • Microtettigonia Rentz, 1979 in Rentz, 2010: 107.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
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  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1979) Comments on the classification of the orthopteran family Tettigoniidae, with a key to subfamilies and description of two new subfamilies. Australian Journal of Zoology, 27, 991–1013.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (2001) The Listroscelidinae, Tympanophorinae, Meconematinae and Microtettigoniinae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 3, 1–524 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=rz6bHWhrbhMC
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (2010) In A Guide to the Katydids of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 214 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Gd8CM_wn7pMC

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Named with reference to the minute size of the adults.

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