Zubovskya Explained

Zubovskya is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Podismini and subtribe Miramellina, erected by D.P. Dovnar-Zapolskij in 1932.^[1] Species have a very disjointed distribution, with records (probably incomplete) from Romania, northern and eastern Russia, northern China, Korea and Japan.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Zubovskya banatica Kis, 1965
2. Zubovskya brachycercata Huang, 1987
3. Zubovskya dolichocercata Huang, 1987
4. Zubovskya eyouqiensis Li, Li & Yin, 2015
5. Zubovskya koeppeni (Zubovski, 1900): two subspecies:
   1. Z. koeppeni koeppeni (Zubovski, 1900)
   2. Z. koeppeni parvula (Ikonnikov, 1911) - type species (as Podisma parvula Ikonnikov)
6. Zubovskya koreana Mistshenko, 1952
7. Zubovskya mistshenkoi Storozhenko, 1980
8. Zubovskya mongolica Storozhenko, 1986
9. Zubovskya morii (Bey-Bienko, 1931)
10. Zubovskya planicaudata Zhang & Jin, 1985
11. Zubovskya weishanensis Zheng, Zhang & Ren, 1995
12. Zubovskya xiai Li, Li & Yin, 2015

Notes and References

1. Dovnar-Zapolskij DP (1932) Zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Podismini (Orthoptera, Acridodea) (Vorläufige Mitteilung). Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad] 1(3-4): 262 [in Russian with German summary].
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1111116 Orthoptera Species File: genus Zubovskya Dovnar-Zapolskij, 1932 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)