Asiotmethis Explained

Asiotmethis is a genus of European and Western Asian grasshoppers belonging to the family Pamphagidae, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1943.^[1] Belonging to the tribe Thrinchini, the species can be found in Greece through to Iran and central Asia.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Asiotmethis artemisianus Shumakov, 1949
2. Asiotmethis bifurcatus Liu & Bi, 1994
3. Asiotmethis heptapotamicus (Zubovski, 1898)
4. Asiotmethis jubatus (Uvarov, 1926)
5. Asiotmethis limbatus (Charpentier, 1845)
6. Asiotmethis muricatus (Pallas, 1771) - type species (as Gryllus muricatus Pallas)
7. Asiotmethis nigripedis Steinmann, 1966
8. Asiotmethis serricornis (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
9. Asiotmethis similis Bey-Bienko, 1951
10. Asiotmethis tauricus (Tarbinsky, 1930)
11. Asiotmethis turritus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1833)
12. Asiotmethis zacharjini (Bey-Bienko, 1926)

Notes and References

1. Uvarov BP (1943) Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 93(1): 52.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1117403 Orthoptera Species File: genus Asiotmethis Uvarov, 1943 (retrieved 3 January 2023)