Montana (bush cricket) explained
Montana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by F.E. Zeuner in 1941.[1] The type species, M. montana has been called the "Steppe Bush-Cricket".[2] Some authorities[3] [4] previously placed this as a subgenus of Platycleis, but it is now considered a separate genus, as part of the genus group Platycleis. Species can be found in the northern Palaearctic realm from mainland western Europe (not the British Isles) through to Siberia.
Species
The Orthoptera Species File[5] lists the following accepted species:
- Montana armeniaca (Ramme, 1930)
- Montana barretii (Burr, 1912)
- Montana carpetana (Bolívar, 1887)
- Montana daghestanica (Uvarov, 1917)
- Montana decticiformis (Stshelkanovtzev, 1914)
- Montana elegans (Uvarov, 1934)
- Montana eversmanni (Kittary, 1849)
- Montana gaskoi Garai, 2011
- Montana heinrichi (Ramme, 1929)
- Montana helleri (Çiplak & Taylan, 2006)
- Montana kure (Ünal, 2006)
- Montana macedonica (Berland & Chopard, 1922)
- Montana medvedevi (Miram, 1927)
- Montana montana (Kollar, 1833) = type species (as Locusta montana Kollar)
- Montana richteri (Bey-Bienko, 1958)
- Montana schereri (Werner, 1901)
- Montana striata (Thunberg, 1815)
- Montana stricta (Zeller, 1849)
- Montana taurica (Bolívar, 1899)
- Montana tianshanica (Uvarov, 1933)
- Montana tomini (Pylnov, 1916)
- Montana uvarovi Karabag, 1950
- Montana zanjanica Garai, 2011
Notes and References
- 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: 15.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/555646-Montana-montana iNaturalist: Steppe Bush-Cricket (Montana montana)
- Harz (1969) Ser. Entomol. 5: 250-254.
- Ragge D (1990) Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 59(1): 9.
- http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142619 Orthoptera Species File: genus Montana Zeuner, 1941 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022)
