Metrioptera Explained

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.

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.[2] [3] They are:

  1. Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941
  2. Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
  3. Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941
  4. Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941 - Canada and NE Asia
  5. Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951

Species

The Orthoptera Species File includes:[4]

  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

See also

Notes and References

  1. Wesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592.
  2. 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.
  3. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142450 Orthoptera Species File: genus group Metrioptera Zeuner, 1941
  4. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142491 Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838