Biology:Alectoria superba

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Short description: Genus of cricket-like animals

Alectoria superba
Alectoria superba (centre)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
Genus: Alectoria
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1879
Species:
A. superba
Binomial name
Alectoria superba
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1879
Synonyms

Hectoria pontoni Tepper, 1892[1]

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]

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. ↑ 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. ↑ Rentz DCF (1996) Grasshopper Country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1-284
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Orthoptera Species File: genus Alectoria Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1879 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 21 June 2023)
  4. ↑ Brunner von Wattenwyl C (1879) Jour. Mus. Godeffr. 14.

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