David Rentz: A guide to the katydids of Australia
@article{New2010DavidRA,
title={David Rentz: A guide to the katydids of Australia},
author={Tim R New},
journal={Journal of Insect Conservation},
year={2010},
volume={14},
pages={579-580}
}Katydids (also known as ‘long-horned grasshoppers’ or ‘bush-crickets’, amidst a variety of other common names that may infer spurious relationships with other groups of Orthoptera) are the members of the distinctive family Tettigoniidae, one of the largest families in the order and with a rich Australian fauna exceeding a thousand species. David Rentz is acknowledged globally as the leading authority on these insects, and is a prolific writer on their systematics; his projected series of… Expand
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Bioacoustic and biophysical analysis of a newly described highly transparent genus of predatory katydids from the Andean cloud forest (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Phlugidini)
- Geography
- 2019
ABSTRACT Transparency is a greatly advantageous form of camouflage, allowing species to passively avoid detection regardless of the properties of the surface which they occupy. However, it is… Expand
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