Platypygius Explained

Platypygius is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Epacromiini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1942.^[1] The recorded distribution of species is the Iberian peninsula though southern Europe to the Caucasus range (distribution may be incomplete).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Platypygius crassus (Karny, 1907)
2. Platypygius platypygius (Pantel, 1886) - type species (as Epacromia platypygia Pantel)

External links

• European locusts and their ecology: Platypygius at pyrgus.de

Notes and References

1. Uvarov BP (1942) New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67(4): 337, 343 [1941].
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1103456 Orthoptera Species File: genus Platypygius Uvarov, 1942 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)