Open AccessKARYOTYPES IN THE GENUS BIROELLA AND THE ORIGIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN MORABINE GRASSHOPPERS *
Author(s) -
White M. J. D.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1975.tb02014.x
Subject(s) - karyotype , biology , orthoptera , genus , zoology , ecology , evolutionary biology , chromosome , genetics , gene
Although one species of Biroella (Orthoptera, Eumastacidae, Biroellinae) from the Cape York Peninsula has a 2n♂= 17 karyotype which resembles that of many species of Morabinae, two other species of Biroella from Papua, with 2n♂= 15 and 2n♂= 11, have karyotypes that show no particular similarity to any morabine. The diversity of karyotypes in the genus Biroella seems to be extreme, even by comparison with the Morabinae.