Tropidopola Explained

Tropidopola is a genus of grasshoppers, erected by Carl Stål in 1873.^[1] It is the type genus of the monotypic tribe Tropidopolini^[2] and the subfamily Tropidopolinae.Species are distributed in: central-northern Africa, southern Europe^[3] and Asia: near East, India up to Siberia.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[4] lists:

1. Tropidopola cylindrica (Marschall, 1836) - type species (as Opsomala fasciculata Charpentier = T. cylindrica cylindrica, one of 4 subspecies)
2. Tropidopola daurica Uvarov, 1926
3. Tropidopola graeca Uvarov, 1926
4. Tropidopola longicornis (Fieber, 1853)
5. Tropidopola nigerica Uvarov, 1937
6. Tropidopola syriaca (Walker, 1871)
7. Tropidopola turanica Uvarov, 1926

Notes and References

1. Stål C (1873) Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1: 43, 86.
2. Jacobson GG (1905)[1902-1905] In Jacobson, G.G. & V.L. Bianchi. Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries 73, 306.
3. Defaut, Morichon (2015) Faune de France 97(1a,b): 286.
4. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1103013 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 15 November 2022)