Subfamily Orthoderinae Saussure
- Orthoderinae Saussure.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANTODEA | 22-Mar-2024 | ADDED |
- Orthodera Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2 pp. 517-552. [529].
Type species:
Orthodera prasina Burmeister, 1838 by monotypy.Secondary source:
Beier, M. 1935. Mantodea: Fam. Mantidae: Subfam. Orthoderinae-Choeradodinae-Deroplatynae. Genera Insectorum 201: 1-10 [2]. - Bolidena Blanchard, C.E. 1853. Description des Insectes. pp. 1-422 in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. (eds). Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837–1840. Zoologie. Paris : Gide & Baudry Vol. 4. [356].
Type species:
Mantis hobsonii Le Guillou, 1841 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Beier, M. 1935. Mantodea: Fam. Mantidae: Subfam. Orthoderinae-Choeradodinae-Deroplatynae. Genera Insectorum 201: 1-10 [2]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
- Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
- New Zealand
Oriental Region
- Indonesia
Distribution References
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Orthodera australiana Giglio-Tos, E. 1917. Mantidi Esotici. Generi e specie nouve. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 48(1916): 43-108 [107].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ adults, Alexandria and Hermannsburg, NT.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
IBRA
NT: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
Ecological Descriptors
Predator, volant.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Orthodera burmeisteri Wood-Mason, J. 1889. A Catalogue of Mantodea with Descriptions of New Genera and Species, and an enumeration of the specimens in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. No. 1. Calcutta : Indian Museum 48 pp. [21].
Type data:
Holotype ♀ adult, Port Moresby, Papua-New Guinea. - Orthodera longicollis Brancsik, C. 1897. Series Orthopterorum novorum. Jahresheft Naturwissenscheftlichen Vereins des Trencsiner Comitat 19-20: 52-85, tabs i-ii [dated 1897] [61].
Type data:
Syntype(s) TTMB adults (number and sex unknown), Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (as colonia germanica in Nova-Guinea).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Beier, M. 1935. Mantodea: Fam. Mantidae: Subfam. Orthoderinae-Choeradodinae-Deroplatynae. Genera Insectorum 201: 1-10 [2]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin
Ecological Descriptors
Predator, volant.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Orthodera gracilis Giglio-Tos, E. 1917. Mantidi Esotici. Generi e specie nouve. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 48(1916): 43-108 [107].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ 2♀ adults, Killalpannina (as Killalpanima), 100 miles E of Lake Eyre, SA.
Distribution
States
South Australia
IBRA
SA: Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
Ecological Descriptors
Predator, volant.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Mantis gunnii Le Guillou, E.J.F. 1841. La description de 23 espèces nouvelles d'Orthoptères, recueillies pendant son voyage autour du monde sur la Zélée. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 292-295 [293] [nomen dubium; considered nomen dubium by Connors (2023) due to missing type specimens and a brief description insufficient to distinguish this species from other members of the genus].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Hobart, TAS.
Distribution
States
Tasmania
IBRA
Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)
Ecological Descriptors
Predator, volant.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Jun-2024 | MANTODEA | 27-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Orthodera marginata Saussure, H. de 1872. Mélanges Orthoptérologiques. Fasc. 4. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 23: 1-160 [8].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ (number unknown), Swan River, WA (as La Nouvelle Hollande, Swan-river).
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Orthodera gunnii Le Guillou, 1841 [treated as a synonym of O. gunnii]. —
Giglio-Tos, E. 1921. Orthoptera: Fam. Mantidæ: Subfam. Eremiaphilinæ. Genera Insectorum 177: 1-36 [33]
Introduction
Removed from synonymy with O. gunnii by Connors (2023)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Mostly arid inland regions of mainland Australia
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)
General References
Connors, M.G. 2023. Studies in Australian Mantodea: New synonyms, notes on distributions, and an updated checklist. Zootaxa 5239(4): 477-499 [481]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANTODEA | 27-Mar-2024 | ADDED |
- Mantis ministralis Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [277].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ 2♀ adults, Australia (as nova Hollandia). - Orthodera prasina Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2 pp. 517-552. [529].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MLU ♂ adult, Australia (as La Nouvelle-Hollande) and TAS (as La Tasmanie); ZMB ♀ adult, Australia (as La Nouvelle-Hollande) and TAS (as La Tasmanie).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
SW coastal, NW coastal, N coastal, W plateau, N Gulf, Lake Eyre basin, NE coastal, Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, S Gulfs, WA, NT, QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS, SA.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
- Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
Ecological Descriptors
Predator, volant.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Mantis rubrocoxata Serville, J.G. Audinet 1838. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret 776 pp. [203].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande). - Mantis hobsonii Le Guillou, E.J.F. 1841. La description de 23 espèces nouvelles d'Orthoptères, recueillies pendant son voyage autour du monde sur la Zélée. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 292-295 [293].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP adults (depository uncertain, number and sex unknown), Hobart, TAS. - Orthodera laticollis Brancsik, C. 1896. Orthoptera quaedam nova africana et australica. Jahresheft Naturwissenscheftlichen Vereins des Trencsiner Comitat 17–18: 243-262 [246].
Type data:
Syntype(s) TTMB 2♀ adults, Castlemaine, VIC.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Beier, M. 1935. Mantodea: Fam. Mantidae: Subfam. Orthoderinae-Choeradodinae-Deroplatynae. Genera Insectorum 201: 1-10 [2]
Distribution
States
Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria: SE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Predator, volant.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08-Jul-2014 | MANTODEA | 22-May-2014 | MODIFIED | Graham Milledge |
| 22-May-2014 | MODIFIED |
- Orthoderina Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-60, pl. 1-4 [15].
Type species:
Orthoderina straminea Sjöstedt, 1918 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Orthoderina fergusoniana Werner, F. 1933. Prof. Dr. E. Handschin Studienreise auf den Sundainseln und in Nordaustralien 1930–32. Einige teilweise neue asiatische und australische Mantodeen. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40: 441-447 [444].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♂ adult, Kimberley District, WA.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Predator.
Extra Ecological Information
Male volant, female volant*.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |
- Orthoderina straminea Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-60, pl. 1-4 [16].
Type data:
Holotype MHNB ♂ adult, Ferguson River, NT.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Predator, volant.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |