Sporadiana Explained

Sporadiana is a monotypic genus of southern European bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis, erected by erected by Frederick Everard Zeuner in 1941.[1]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[2] includes the single species Sporadiana sporadarum, which Franz Werner originally placed in the genus Platycleis.[3] This species has been called the “Sporades Bush-cricket” and has been recorded from Greece and Turkey.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. 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: 39.
  2. Web site: Genus Sporadiana Zeuner, 1941 . Orthoptera Species File . 10 August 2024.
  3. Werner F (1933) Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Studien-und Sammelreise nach den Inseln des Agäischen Meeres II. Orthopteren. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (Abt. 1). 142: 193.