The matchstick grasshopper genus Warramaba (Morabidae: Morabinae): a description of four new species and a photographic guide to the group
Author
Kearney, Michael R.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-18
4482
2
201
244
journal article
29194
10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.1
9b676605-0afb-4d17-a686-03c1c38b0da7
1175-5326
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50C52514-9BBA-46B6-B8D7-2FA18DA131D0
Genus:
Warramaba
Key, 1976
Type species:
Warramaba picta
, Key
, by original designation.
Diagnosis:
FOR fULL DETAILS Of THE DIAGNOSIS Of THIS GENUS, SEE
KEY (1976)
, AND fOR A kEY TO THE
WARRAmUNGINI
KEY (1979)
. THE PHALLIC COmPLEX DIffERS fROm ALL kNOwN SPECIES Of
Warramunga
, ITS CLOSEST RELATIvE, IN THE LOCATION Of THE ECTOPHALLIC vALvES wITH THEIR DORSAL mARGIN mORE OR LESS LEvEL wITH DORSAL SURfACE Of SHAfT.
Warramaba
ALSO HAvE fEwER THAN 19 ANTENNAL ARTICLES, wHILE
Warramunga
HAvE 19, AND
Warramaba
ARE LESS ATTENUATE, wITH THE HAIRS ON TIbIA III mORE DENSELY SET ON THE vENTROINTERNAL. FROm A mOLECULAR STANDPOINT,
Warramaba
DIffERS fROm
Warramunga
bY APPROXImATELY 15% fOR A 600 bASE PAIR SEqUENCE Of THE mITROCHONDRIAL GENE COI (KEARNEY
et al.
2006; KEARNEY AND
BLACkET 2008
).
Remarks.
THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION Of THE PARTHENOGENETIC
W. virgo
IS TO bE fOUND IN WHITE ET AL. (1963) fROm A POPULATION IN
EASTERN
AUSTRALIA
. THE OTHER mEmbERS Of THE GENUS OCCUR IN
WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
(
FIG. 1
), INCLUDING THE ONLY SEXUAL SPECIES TO bE DESCRIbED THUS fAR,
W. picta
(
KEY 1976
)
. THESE TwO SPECIES ARE bRIEfLY DESCRIbED AGAIN bELOw, fOLLOwED bY NEw DESCRIPTIONS Of THE REmAINING SPECIES, wITH ALL
HOLOTYPES
PICTURED IN
FIG. 2
AND
HOLOTYPE
mORPHOLOGICAL mEASUREmENTS REPORTED IN
TAbLE 1
.