Kawanaphila

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Kawanaphila
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Unidentified Kawanaphila species
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Zaprochilinae
Genus: Kawanaphila
Rentz, 1993 [1]

Kawanaphila is a genus of insects in family Tettigoniidae (bush crickets and katydids) from Australia. [2] [3] It was described in 1993 by David C. Rentz. [4]

Species

Kawanaphila contains the following species:

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References

  1. Rentz DCF [ed.] (1993) A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia 2: 76, 90
  2. Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 11 January 2018)
  3. "Kawanaphila (Rentz, 1993)". Atlas of Living Australia . Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  4. Rentz, David (2010). A Guide to the Katydids of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. p. 182. ISBN   9780643095540.