Phasmodes (lat.) - a genus of grasshoppers , the only one in the monotypic subfamily Phasmodinae Caudell, 1912 . Endemic to Australia [2] .
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Distribution
Found in Western Australia [3] [4] .
Description
Body length 5–6 cm. Hind femur about 3 cm long. Egg length about 6 mm [5] . The pronotum is long, the body is rod-shaped, convergent similar to sticks ; live and feed on flowers. Eggs are laid in the ground. Head with a narrow rostrum between the bases of the antennae and weakly pronounced tubercles on it, prognathic. Spikes and tubercles on sternitis of the chest are absent. Acoustic stigma not covered by a pronotum, small in size. Legs are laser, long and thin; hind legs non-hopping. Wings are not developed [3] [6] [7] .
Classification
1 genus and 3 species [8] . Allocated to the monotypic subfamily Phasmodinae Caudell, 1912 [2] . Close to Meconematinae [3]
- Phasmodes jeeba Rentz, 1993
- Phasmodes nungeroo Rentz, 1993
- Phasmodes ranatriformis Westwood, 1843
See also
- Acridoxena hewaniana
Notes
- ↑ Westwood, 1843: Arcana Entomologica, or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting Insects . vol. 2, n. 16, 53-57.
- ↑ 1 2 Caudell, AN, 1912: Orthoptera. Family Locustidae, Subfamilies Meconeminae, Phyllophorinae, Tympanophyllorinae, Phasgonurinae, Phasmodinae, Bradyporinae. Genera Insectorum, 138: 1-25.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Gorokhov A.V. Classification and phylogeny of grasshoppers // Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and evolution of insects / Ed. A. G. Ponomarenko. - M .: Nauka, 1988 .-- S. 145-190. - 236 p. - ISBN 5-02-004646-9 .
- ↑ Distribution for subfamily Phasmodinae . orthoptera.speciesfile.org
- ↑ Rentz DCF Tettigoniidae of Australia Volume 2: Austrosaginae, Zaprochilinae and Phasmodinae . - Csiro Publishing, 1993 .-- S. 145-190. - 386 p. - ISBN 0643 05424 3 .
- ↑ Rentz, DCF 2010. A Guide to the Katydids of Australia p. 188-190.
- ↑ Rentz DCF Comments on the Classification of the Orthopteran Family Tettigoniidae, With a Key to Subfamilies and Description of Two New Subfamilies (Eng.) // Australian Journal of Zoology : Journal. - Clayton South (Victoria, Australia): CSIRO Publishing, 1979. - Vol. 27, no. 6 . - P. 991-1013. - ISSN 0004-959X .
- ↑ subfamily Phasmodinae . orthoptera.speciesfile.org
Literature
- Caudell AN 1912: Orthoptera. Family Locustidae, Subfamilies Meconeminae, Phyllophorinae, Tympanophyllorinae, Phasgonurinae, Phasmodinae, Bradyporinae. Genera Insectorum, 138: 1-25.
- Rentz, DCF 2010. A Guide to the Katydids of Australia p. 188.
Links
- Orthoptera subfamily Phasmodinae . orthoptera.speciesfile.org
- subfamily phasmodinae . biolib.cz