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species Macrotona australis (Walker, 1870)

• Common name(s):  Common Macrotona
• Images: (6) See all images
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:670   >> Heteracris australis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:58521
  • Uvarov. 1930. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 10 6:601 >> Macrotona australis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:58520
  • Sjöstedt. 1936[1935]. K. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 3 15(2):143 >> Eumacrotona australis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:517881
  • Dirsh. 1956. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 108(7):277 >> Eumacrotona australis
  • COPR (Centre for Overseas Pest Research). 1982. The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual 248 >> Eumacrotona australis
  • Key. 1986. CSIRO Entomol. Tech. Paper 24:21 >> Macrotona australis
  • Rentz, D.C.F. 1996. Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia 190 Pl. 325 >> Macrotona australis
  • Rentz, D.C.F., R.C. Lewis, Y. Su & Upton [Ed.]. 2003. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts 279, 386 >> Macrotona australis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia, Western Australia, Western Australia, Swan River
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym bella (Sjöstedt, 1921)
• synonym gracilis Rehn, 1907
• synonym lineola Brancsik, 1895
• synonym simplex (Sjöstedt, 1920)

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