Alectoria_superba

<i>Alectoria superba</i>

Alectoria superba

Genus of cricket-like animals

Alectoria superba is a species of Australian bush crickets or katydids in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Alectoria.[2][3] The genus is placed in the genus group Ephippithytae; both genus and species were described in 1879 by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl.[4]

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Species

The Orthoptera Species File[3] includes the single species Alectoria superba (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1879), which is sometimes called the "Australian crested katydid"; the type locality is Peak Downs, Queensland.

References

  1. [1]
    Tepper JGO (1892) The Phaneropteridae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia) 15: 77-113
  2. [2]
    Rentz DCF (1996) Grasshopper Country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1-284
  3. [3]
    Orthoptera Species File: genus Alectoria Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1879 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 21 June 2023)
  4. [4]
    Brunner von Wattenwyl C (1879) Jour. Mus. Godeffr. 14.
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