Pachytrachis Explained

Pachytrachis is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1940.^[1] Species have been recorded from Italy, through South-eastern Europe to Turkey.

Species

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

1. Pachytrachis bosniacus Messina, 1979
2. Pachytrachis frater (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)
3. Pachytrachis gracilis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861)
4. Pachytrachis striolatus (Fieber, 1853) - type species (replaced name inherited from synonym Thamnotrizon appendiculatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861)
5. Pachytrachis tumidus Ingrisch & Pavićević, 2010

External links

• Images at iNaturalist

Notes and References

1. Uvarov BP (1940) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 112–117.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142273 Orthoptera Species File: genus Pachytrachis Uvarov, 1940 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 May 2023)