Warramaba Key, 1976

Kearney, Michael 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), pp. 201-244 : 205

Genus: Warramaba Key, 1976

Type species: Warramaba picta, Key , by original designation.

Diagnosis: FOR fULL DETAILS Of THE DIAGNOSIS Of THIS GENUS, SEE KEY (1976), AND fOR A kEY TO THE WARRAmUNGINI KEY (1979). THE PHALLIC COmPLEX DIffERS fROm ALL kNOwN SPECIES Of Warramunga , ITS CLOSEST RELATIvE, IN THE LOCATION Of THE ECTOPHALLIC vALvES wITH THEIR DORSAL mARGIN mORE OR LESS LEvEL wITH DORSAL SURfACE Of SHAfT. Warramaba ALSO HAvE fEwER THAN 19 ANTENNAL ARTICLES, wHILE Warramunga HAvE 19, AND Warramaba ARE LESS ATTENUATE, wITH THE HAIRS ON TIbIA III mORE DENSELY SET ON THE vENTROINTERNAL. FROm A mOLECULAR STANDPOINT, Warramaba DIffERS fROm Warramunga bY APPROXImATELY 15% fOR A 600 bASE PAIR SEqUENCE Of THE mITROCHONDRIAL GENE COI (KEARNEY et al. 2006; KEARNEY AND BLACkET 2008).

Remarks. THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION Of THE PARTHENOGENETIC W. virgo IS TO bE fOUND IN WHITE ET AL. (1963) fROm A POPULATION IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA. THE OTHER mEmbERS Of THE GENUS OCCUR IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA ( FIG. 1 ), INCLUDING THE ONLY SEXUAL SPECIES TO bE DESCRIbED THUS fAR, W. picta ( KEY 1976) . THESE TwO SPECIES ARE bRIEfLY DESCRIbED AGAIN bELOw, fOLLOwED bY NEw DESCRIPTIONS Of THE REmAINING SPECIES, wITH ALL HOLOTYPES PICTURED IN FIG. 2 AND HOLOTYPE mORPHOLOGICAL mEASUREmENTS REPORTED IN TAbLE 1.

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FIGURE 1. Distribution of Warramaba species, a) overall in Western Australia, b) of W. virgo in eastern Australia, and c–h) of the Western Australian taxa separately. Also indicated in a) With a black triangle is the location for P152 (here assigned to W. picta) and, With open triangles, the locations of P188 (here assigned to W. grandis sp. nov.).

FIGURE 2. Holotypes of Warramaba, all held in the Australian National Insect Collection: a) W. picta (Key 1976), b) W. whitei sp. nov., c) W. flavolineata sp. nov., d) W. grandis sp. nov., e) W. virgo (Key 1963), f) W. ngadju sp. nov. The Width of the pin in each photo is 0.6 mm.