Pholidoptera Explained

Pholidoptera^[1] is a genus of bush-crickets belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae and the type genus of the tribe Pholidopterini.^[2]

List of species

• Pholidoptera aptera (Fabricius, 1793) - alpine dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera brevicollis (A. Costa, 1882)
• Pholidoptera brevipes Ramme, 1939
• Pholidoptera brunneri (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1881)
• Pholidoptera bureschi Maran, 1957
• Pholidoptera caucasica (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
• Pholidoptera dalmatica (H. A. Krauss, 1879) - Dalmatian dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera dalmatina Maran, 1953
• Pholidoptera distincta (Uvarov, 1921)
• Pholidoptera ebneri Ramme, 1931 - Ebner's dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera fallax (Fischer von Waldheim, 1854)
• Pholidoptera femorata (Fieber, 1853) - large dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera frivaldskyi (Herman, 1871) - green dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera ganevi Harz, 1986
• Pholidoptera griseoaptera (De Geer, 1773) – dark bush-cricket
  - type species: (as Locusta griseoaptera De Geer)
• Pholidoptera guichardi Karabag, 1961
• Pholidoptera ledereri (Fieber, 1861)
• Pholidoptera littoralis (Fieber, 1853) - littoral dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera lucasi F. Willemse, 1976
• Pholidoptera macedonica Ramme, 1928 - Macedonian dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera ornata (Nedelkov, 1907)
• Pholidoptera persica Chopard, 1921
• Pholidoptera pontica (Retowski, 1888)
• Pholidoptera pustulipes (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
• Pholidoptera satunini (Uvarov, 1916)
• Pholidoptera stankoi Karaman, 1960 - Stanko's dark bush-cricket
• Pholidoptera tartarus (Saussure, 1874)
• Pholidoptera transsylvanica (Fischer von Waldheim, 1853) - Transylvanian dark bush-cricket

Notes and References

1. Wesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1143069 Orthoptera Species File