Metrioptera

Metrioptera[1] is a genus of insects in the tribe Platycleidini and subfamily Tettigoniinae, include the bog and meadow bush crickets. They are found in Eurasia.[2][3]

Metrioptera
Metrioptera brachyptera male
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Superfamily: Tettigonioidea
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Metrioptera
Wesmaël, 1838

Taxonomy

Genus group Metrioptera

A number of Palaearctic and North American genera are very similar, and were grouped here in F.E. Zeuner's revision.[4][5] They are:

  1. Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941
  2. Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
  3. Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941
  4. Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941
  5. Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951

Species

The Orthoptera Species File includes:[2]

  1. Metrioptera ambigua Pfau, 1986
  2. Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761) - type species (as Gryllus brachypterus L.)
  3. Metrioptera buyssoni (Saulcy, 1887)
  4. Metrioptera caprai Baccetti, 1956
  5. Metrioptera hoermanni (Werner, 1906)
  6. Metrioptera karnyana Uvarov, 1924
  7. Metrioptera maritima Olmo-Vidal, 1992
  8. Metrioptera prenjica (Burr, 1899)
  9. Metrioptera saussuriana (Frey-Gessner, 1872)
  10. Metrioptera tsirojanni Harz & Pfau, 1983

References
  1. Wesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592.
  2. Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
  3. Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. Zeuner FE (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 91: 1–50, figs. 1–45.
  5. Orthoptera Species File: genus group Metrioptera Zeuner, 1941

See also
  • List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe
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