Warramaba virgo ( Key, 1963 )

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 : 209-210

Warramaba virgo ( Key, 1963)

Type data (from White, Cheney and Key, 1963). ♀ fROm 9 mILES WNW. Of MONIA GAP, N.S.W., 17.II.1962, KEY AND WHITE, REf. NO. (TO HAbITAT NOTES) 5710. IN THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL INSECT COLLECTION, CANbERRA.

Description: SEE TAbLE 1 fOR mORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS Of THE HOLOTYPE, AND FIGURE 4A–b AND APPENDIX 1 fOR PHOTOGRAPHS Of LIvE SPECImENS.

Colouration: TYPICALLY bRIGHT TO DULL GREEN, wITH OCCASIONAL GREY mORPHS. PROmINENT bROwN TERGAL mARkINGS. LATERAL fACIAL STRIPES RED OR YELLOw, USUALLY wITH LATERAL YELLOw STRIPES ALONG PRONOTUm AND AbDOmEN; mAGENTA COLOURATION AbSENT; DISTINCT wHITE, AND OfTEN TRIANGULAR, mEDIAN fACIAL REGION.

Diagnosis: THE kARYOTYPE, wITH 2 n ♀ = 15, DERIvES fROm THE COmbINATION Of THE kARYOTYPES Of W. whitei sp. nov. AND W. flavolineata sp. nov. AND IS UNIqUE wITHIN THE GENUS wITH THE EXCEPTION Of W. ngadju sp. nov.. IT CAN bE DISTINGUISHED fROm W. ngadju sp. nov. AND OTHER mEmbERS Of THE GENUS bY COLOURATION, AS DESCRIbED IN THE kEY bELOw.

Distribution: THIS SPECIES IS THE ONLY mEmbER Of THE GENUS TO OCCUR OUTSIDE Of WESTERN AUSTRALIA. IN THE EAST ( FIG. 1b ) IT IS fOUND IN A REGION APPROXImATELY bOUNDED bY THE TOwNS Of MILDURA, AND BROkEN HILL, CObAR AND HILLSTON, wITH A LATITUDINAL RANGE Of 31.27°S TO 34.59°S AND A LONGITUDINAL RANGE Of 141.36°E TO 146.04°E. IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA ( FIG. 1A & C ), IT IS fOUND IN A REGION EXTENDING SOUTH-wEST fROm KALGOORLIE wITH A LATITUDINAL RANGE Of 30.07°S TO 32.06°S AND A LONGITUDINAL RANGE Of 121.24°E TO 124.21°E.

Material examined: 1 fEmALE, 6km W Of KALGOORLIE (121.4, -30.75), 27 FEb, 1982 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 5km NE Of KANOwANA RUINS, NR . BROAD ARROw [KANOwNA] (121.63, -30.57), 18 FEb, 1981, WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 5km NE Of KANOwNA RUINS (121.63, -30.57), 18 FEb, 1981 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 18 fEmALES, 6 km W Of HAYES HILL, N Of NORSEmAN (121.65, -31.85), 22 JAN, 1973 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 3 fEmALES, COONAANNA HILL NR. COONANA (123.07, -31.03), 15 JAN, 1974 TO 16 JAN, 1974, WHITE,M.J.D.; 5 fEmALES, 16 km SW Of BROkEN HILL (141.35, -32.07), 27 OCT, 1972 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, STERLING VALE Ck. , 11 km W Of BROkEN HILL [ STIRLING VALE Ck.] (141.4, -31.97), 27 OCT, 1972 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 16 km SSW Of BROkEN HILL (141.4, -32.1), 13 DEC, 1971 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 4.8 km SE Of BROkEN HILL (141.5, -32), 27 OCT, 1972 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 0.5km S Of YATPOOL NR . MILDURA (142.18, -34.37), 4 MAR, 1974, WEbb,G.C.; 1 fEmALE, NOwINGI (142.22, -34.6), 11 DEC, 1969, NANkIvELL,R.N.; 1 fEmALE, NOwINGI, S Of MILDURA (142.22, -34.6), 8 MAR, 1982 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE 1 fEmALE, 33 km SSW Of POONCARIE (142.43, -33.63), 2 FEb, 1981 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 2 fEmALES, 6 mI. W Of PADDINGTON H.S., SW Of CObAR (144.95, -32.13), 25 JAN, 1970 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 9 mI. NNW Of PADDINGTON H.S., SW Of CObAR (144.98, - 32), 25 JAN, 1970 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 2 fEmALES, 3 mI. E Of ROTO (145.52, -33.05), 9 MAR, 1962 , WHITE,M.J.D. & TURNER, J.S.; 2 fEmALES, 6 km W Of CObAR (145.75, -31.5), 10 DEC, 1971 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE 1 fEmALE, 4 mI. W Of CObAR (145.77, -31.5), 20 FEb, 1963, CHINNICk,L.J.; 1 fEmALE, 4 mI. W Of CObAR (145.77, -31.5), 5 DEC, 1962 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 3 km WSW Of CObAR (145.78, -31.52), 30 JAN, 1975, ATCHLEY, W.R.; 1 fEmALE 1 fEmALES, 9 mI. WNW Of MONIA GAP (145.82, -33.52), UNkNOwN, <COLLECTOR UNkNOwN>; 2 fEmALES 2 fEmALE, 9 mI. WNW Of MONIA GAP (145.82, -33.52), 18 FEb, 1962 , KEY, K.H.L. & WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE 1 fEmALES, 9 mI. WNW Of MONIA GAP (145.82, -33.52), 2 FEb, 1964 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 9 mI. WNW Of MONIA GAP (145.82, -33.52), 17 FEb, 1962 TO 18 FEb, 1962 , WHITE,M.J.D. & KEY, K.H.L.; 1 fEmALE, 14km WNW Of MONIA GAP, NW Of RANkINS SPRINGS (145.83, -33.52), 9 DEC, 1980 , WHITE,M.J.D.; 1 fEmALE, 14 km WNW Of MONIA GAP, NR . HILLSTON (145.83, - 33.55), 3 MAR, 1974, WEbb,G.C.; 2 fEmALES, 3 mI. SW Of SHUTTLETON (146.03, -32.15), 10 MAR, 1962 , WHITE,M.J.D. & TURNER,J.S.

Taxonomic discussion: FORmER ANIC CODE NUmbER P140.

Biology: Warramaba virgo IS AN ALL-fEmALE PARTHENOGENETIC SPECIES RESULTING fROm HYbRIDISATION EvENTS bETwEEN fEmALE W. flavolineata sp. nov. AND mALE W. whitei sp. nov. ( HEwITT 1975; WHITE et al. 1977; KEARNEY AND BLACkET 2008). IT STRONGLY RESEmbLES W. whitei sp. nov. mORPHOLOGICALLY, ESPECIALLY THE mORE NORTHERN POPULATIONS Of THE LATTER. THIS SPECIES mAY OCCUR SYmPATRICALLY wITH W. ngadju sp. nov. AND AT SOmE SITES CAN bE fOUND ON THE SAmE fOOD PLANTS. IT HAS bEEN fOUND ON SHRUbS AND TREES Of THE GENERA Acacia, Senna AND Dodonaea .

Figures

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 4. Warramaba virgo ♀ (Key 1963) a) lateral and b) dorsal images of an individual from NoWingi, Victoria, and W. ngadju sp. nov. ♀ sp. nov. c) lateral and d) frontal images from an individual from 23 km South of Boulder, Western Australia.