Vichetia Explained

Vichetia is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini. It was first erected as the subgenus Metrioptera (Vichetia) by K. Harz in 1969^[1] and subsequently elevated to genus level in 2011: belonging to neither the Metrioptera nor the Platycleis genus groups.^[2]

Species have been recorded from eastern Europe, with most records from the Balkans through to Romania and Bulgaria.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[3] lists the following accepted species:

1. Vichetia knipperi (Ramme, 1951)
2. Vichetia oblongicollis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) - type species (as Platycleis oblongicollis Brunner von Wattenwyl)

Notes and References

1. Harz K (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica 5: 286, 306.
2. Massa & Fontana (2011) Zootaxa 2837: 16.
3. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142268 Orthoptera Species File: genus Vichetia Harz, 1969 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 May 2023)