Vingselina crassa Sjöstedt, 1921

Storozhenko, S. Yu., 2019, New taxa of pygmy grasshoppers from Australia with notes on classification of the subfamily Batrachideinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), Zoosystematica Rossica (Zoosyst. Rossica) 28 (1), pp. 94-107 : 96

Vingselina crassa Sjöstedt, 1921

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Vingselina crassa Sjöstedt, 1921: 20 (holotype – female, Australia: southeastern Queensland, Colosseum; deposited in Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm); Sjöstedt, 1936: 16; Rehn, 1952: 37; Steinmann, 1970: 157; Steinmann, 1973: 168; Yin et al., 1996: 929; Otte, 1997: 11.

Description. The detailed description of this species was given by Rehn (1952).

Distribution. Australia (Queensland).

Remarks. The males of this species are unknown. The photos of female holotype prepared by J. Tumbrinck are available in the Orthoptera Species File ( Cigliano et al., 2018). It allows me to clarify the diagnostic features of the genus and species.

Figures

Figs 1–8. Batrachideinae, female: 1–3, Vingselina crassa; 4–6, Paraselina multifora; 7, P. trituberculata; 8, P. brunneri. Head and pronotum, lateral (1, 4) and dorsal (2, 5) views; pronotum, lateral view (7, 8); head and dorsal part of pronotum, frontal view (3, 6). [1–3, after photos of Tumbrinck (Cigliano et al., 2018); 4–6, after photos of Rehn (1952); 7, 8, after Sjöstedt (1932)].