The matchstick grasshopper genus Warramaba (Morabidae: Morabinae): A description of four new species and a photographic guide to the group

MR Kearney

Journal article

The matchstick grasshopper genus Warramaba (Morabidae: Morabinae): A description of four new species and a photographic guide to the group

MR Kearney

Zootaxa | MAGNOLIA PRESS | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.1

Abstract

Matchstick grasshoppers are a unique and diverse element of Australia's insect fauna with great potential as a model system for ecological, evolutionary and biogeographical studies. The genus Warramaba comprises four bisexual species. It is of special interest from an evolutionary point of view because two parthenogenetic lineages (the Standard and Boulder-Zanthus phylads of W. virgo) have evolved through hybridization events between two of the sexual species. Despite the extensive genetic and systematic work that has been done on this genus, three of the bisexual species are yet to be formally named (P196, P169 and P125) and no key exists for their identification. Here I formally describe t..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This paper clearly draws heavily from the unpublished work of Ken H. L. Key. From what I know about his personality, he would not have wanted to be a posthumous author, but he deserves to be. I thank David Rentz, Hojun Song and an anonymous reviewer for comments on the manuscript, David Rentz, Nelida Contreras, Graeme Webb, Godfrey Hewitt, Danuta Loesche for discussion and insights into Michael J. D. White's and Ken H. L. Key's work on Warramaba, You Ning Su and Federica Turco for advice and support at the Australian National Insect Collection, Alan Henderson for photographic advice, and Steve Swearer and Dean Chamberlain for facilitating the genitalia photography. This research was funded by ARC grants DP0450050, DP0771924 and DP160100279.