Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Redtenbacher, J. (1892) Monographische Uebersicht der Mecopodiden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 42, 183–224. Available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48404#page/305/mode/1up
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Tettigoniidae
- genus
- Phricta
- species
- Phricta spinosa
Name
- Synonyms
- Phoberodema redtenbacheri Brancsik, 1897
- Homonyms
- Phricta spinosa Redtenbacher, 1892
- Common names
- Giant Spiny Forest katydid in English
- Giant Spiny Forest katydid in English
- Giant Spiny Forest katydid in English
- Spiny Rainforest Katydid in English
- Tornet regnskovsgræshoppe in Danish
Bibliographic References
- Beier. 1966. Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Meconematinae, Mecopodinae, Phyllophorinae. Orthopterorum Catalogus 9:306
- Caudell. 1916. Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Mecopodinae. Genera Insectorum, P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles 171:5
- Kirby, W.F. 1906. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 2:355
- Naskrecki. 2005. The Smaller Majority, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 77
- Otte, D. 1997. Tettigonioidea. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 7:101
- Redtenbacher. 1892. Monographische Uebersicht der Mecopodiden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 42:189, 192
- Rentz, D.C.F. & Balderson. 1979. Catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper (CSIRO Entomol. Tech. Paper) 15:6
- Rentz, D.C.F. 2010. A Guide to the Katydids of Australia, CSIRO Publishing 145
- Rentz, D.C.F., Y. Su & Ueshima. 2005. Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae. The genus Phricta Redtenbacher(Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Pseudophyllinae; Phrictini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 131(1):135
- Wilson, G.W. & D.C.F. Rentz. 2016. First observation in nature of effective predator defence behaviour in the spiny forest katydid 'Phricta spinosa' redtenbacher (Orthoptera: Pseudophyllinae: Phrictini). Australian Entomologist 43(1):1-4