Polysarcus Explained

Polysarcus^[1] is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae and tribe Barbitistini. Species can be found in western Europe (but not the British Isles or Scandinavia), Middle East through to Afghanistan.^[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists:^[2]

1. Polysarcus denticauda (Charpentier, 1825) - type species
2. Polysarcus elbursianus (Uvarov, 1930)
3. Polysarcus scutatus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)
4. Polysarcus zacharovi (Stshelkanovtzev, 1910)
5. Polysarcus zigana Ünal & Chobanov, 2013

Notes and References

1. Fieber (1853) Lotos 3: 175.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1138188 Orthoptera Species File: genus Polysarcus Fieber, 1853 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 July 2022)