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Genus Phthersigena Stål, 1871

  • Phthersigena Stål, C. 1871. Orthoptera quaedam africana. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 3: 375-401 [400].
    Type species:
     Phthersigena conspersa Stål, 1871 by monotypy.
  • Glabromantis Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-60 [12].
    Type species:
     Glabromantis nebulosa Sjöstedt, 1918 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Hinton, H.E. 1939. Notes on Australian Mantidae (Orthoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4: 282-289 [282]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
    • Queensland: N Gulf
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, W plateau
    • Western Australia: N coastal

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia

Distribution References

  • Beier, M. 1952. Mantidea aus Ostindonesien. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 63(2): 296-306
  • Beier, M. 1965. Über einige Mantiden von der Insel Prince of Wales. Pacific Insects 7: 449-452