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:
- Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941
- Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
- Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941
- Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941 - Canada and NE Asia
- Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951
Species
The Orthoptera Species File includes:[4]
- Metrioptera ambigua Pfau, 1986
- Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761) - type species (as Gryllus brachypterus L.)
- Metrioptera buyssoni (Saulcy, 1887)
- Metrioptera caprai Baccetti, 1956
- Metrioptera hoermanni (Werner, 1906)
- Metrioptera karnyana Uvarov, 1924
- Metrioptera maritima Olmo-Vidal, 1992
- Metrioptera prenjica (Burr, 1899)
- Metrioptera saussuriana (Frey-Gessner, 1872)
- Metrioptera tsirojanni Harz & Pfau, 1983
See also
Notes and References
- Wesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592.
- 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.
- http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142450 Orthoptera Species File: genus group Metrioptera Zeuner, 1941
- http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142491 Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838