Zeuneriana Explained

Zeuneriana is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and now placed in the genus group Metrioptera F. E. Zeuner:^[1] after whom it was named by W. Ramme in 1951.^[2] The recorded distribution of species is: mainland (especially southern and eastern) Europe, from Spain and France (especially the Pyrenees) through to the Balkans and Romania.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[3] lists:

1. Zeuneriana abbreviata (Serville, 1838)
2. Zeuneriana amplipennis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)
3. Zeuneriana burriana (Uvarov, 1935)
4. Zeuneriana marmorata (Fieber, 1853) - type species (as Platycleis marmorata Fieber by subsequent designation^[4])

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: 1–50, figs. 1–45.
2. Ramme W (1951) Zur Systematik, Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren von Südost-Europa und Vorderasien. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 27: 1–431.
3. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142475 Orthoptera Species File: genus Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951 (retrieved 9 May 2023)
4. Harz K (1969) Ser. Entomol. 5: 1-749.