Microcentrum Explained

Microcentrum^[1] is a genus of phaneropterid bushcrickets, sometimes known as "angle-wing katydids" and found in the Americas.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following Microcentrum species:^[2]

• Microcentrum angustatum Narrowed angle-wing katydid from South America^[3] and the Caribbean^[4]
• Microcentrum bicentenarium from Southeastern Brazil^[5]
• Microcentrum californicum California angle-wing katydid
• Microcentrum championi Champion angle-wing katydid from Panama
• Microcentrum concisum from Panama
• Microcentrum costaricense Costa Rican angle-wing katydid
• Microcentrum gurupi from Eastern Brazil
• Microcentrum incarnatum Larger angle-wing katydid from the Southeastern United States
• Microcentrum irregulare Irregular angle-wing katydid from far-western Brazil
• Microcentrum lanceolatum Lance angle-wing katydid from Brazil
• Microcentrum latifrons Southwestern angle-wing katydid
• Microcentrum linki from southern Brazil
• Microcentrum louisianum Louisiana angle-wing katydid found in Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee
• Microcentrum lucidum Bright angle-wing katydid from northeastern Brazil
• Microcentrum malkini from Suriname
• Microcentrum marginatum Bordered angle-wing katydid from northeastern Brazil
• Microcentrum micromargaritiferum Mini-pearl katydid from Brazil
• Microcentrum minus Texas angle-wing katydid
• Microcentrum myrtifolium Myrtle-leaf katydid from Central and South America
• Microcentrum nauticum from Northern Brazil
• Microcentrum navigator from Northern Brazil
• Microcentrum nigrolineatum Black-lined angle-wing katydid from Bolivia
• Microcentrum philammon from Central America and Colombia
• Microcentrum punctifrons from French Guiana
• Microcentrum retinerve lesser angle-wing katydid found in the eastern United States
• Microcentrum rhombifolium greater angle-wing or broadwing katydid found in the United States and Mexico
• Microcentrum securiferum from Panama
• Microcentrum simplex from Central America
• Microcentrum stylatum from Mexico
• Microcentrum suave Smooth angle-wing katydid from Northwest Mexico
• Microcentrum surinamense Surinam angle-wing katydid
• Microcentrum syntechnoides from Central America
• Microcentrum totonacum Totonaca katydid from Mexico
• Microcentrum triangulatum from the Caribbean Sea
• Microcentrum veraguae Varagua katydid from the Trinidad River, Panama
• Microcentrum w-signatum from southeastern Brazil

Notes and References

1. Scudder SH (1862) Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 7(3): 446.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1136405 Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 18 March 2020)
3. Carnegie Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Volume 9 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1915, pg.332.
4. New York Entomological Society, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Volume 14 p. 157.
5. Piza Jr. Uma nova Parableta de Piracicaba (Phaneropteridae). Revista de Agricultura (Piracicaba). 1968. 43(3-4):103-104