Species Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963)

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• Moraba virgo White, M.J.D., Cheney, J. & Key, K.H.L. 1963. A parthenogenetic species of grasshopper with complex structural heterozygosity (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology 11: 1–19 [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, 9 miles WNW of Monia Gap, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Warramaba virgo (Key, 1963). —
  Key, K.H.L. 1976. A generic and suprageneric classification of the Morabinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacidae), with the description of the type species and a bibliography of the subfamily. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 37: 1-185 [64]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

General References

Atchley, W.R. 1977. Biological variability in parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba virgo (Key) and its sexual relatives. 1. Eastern Australian populations. Evolution 31: 782-799

Kearney, M., Blacket, M.J., Strasburg, J.L. & Moritz, C. 2006. Waves of parthenogenesis in the desert: evidence for the parallel loss of sex in a grasshopper and a gecko from Australia. Molecular Ecology 15: 1743-1748

Kearney, M. & Blacket, M.J. 2008. The evolution of sexual and parthenogenetic Warramaba: a window onto Plio-Pleistocene diversification processes in an arid biome. Molecular Ecology 17: 5257-5275

Kearney, M.R. 2018. The matchstick grasshopper genus Warramaba (Morabidae: Morabinae): a description of four new species and a photographic guide to the group. Zootaxa 4482(2): 201-244 [209]

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