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Issue: Vol. 2417 No. 1: 2 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2417.1.1
Page range: 1–39
Abstract views: 65
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Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: Australian agraeciine katydids, two new genera from northern Australia (Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Agraeciini)

19 Butler Dr, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia 4881
90 Mugga Way, Red Hill, ACT, Australia 2603
1435-1 Kubo-cho Matsusaka, Mie 515-004, Japan
The Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney, NSW 2010
Orthoptera Conocephalinae Agraeciini Australian katydids katydid ecology katydid cytology

Abstract

Two new agraeciine genera and five new species are described from northern Australia. Both genera have species that live in mixed woodlands in the tropics. Armadillagraecia Rentz, Su, Ueshima, Robinson gen. nov. is known from two species in the Northern Territory and one from Queensland. Kapalgagraecia Rentz, Su, Ueshima, Robinson gen. nov. is known from two species, one apparently widespread in the Northern Territory, the other from Groote Eylandt, NT. Cytological data are provided for all Armadillagraecia species but not for Kapalgagraecia. A table is presented documenting knowledge of the known cytology of all Agraeciini. The calling songs of both A. mataranka and A. yerilla Rentz, Su, Ueshima, Robinson gen. et spp. nov. are noted and documented by sonograms. Known biological, ecological and distributional data are presented.

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