Metrioptera
| Metrioptera | |
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| Metrioptera brachyptera male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Superfamily: | Tettigonioidea |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Subfamily: | Tettigoniinae |
| Tribe: | Platycleidini |
| Genus: | Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838 |
Metrioptera[1] is a genus of insects in the tribe Platycleidini and subfamily Tettigoniinae, include the bog and meadow bush crickets. They are found in Eurasia.[2][3]
Taxonomy[edit]
Genus group Metrioptera[edit]
A number of Palaearctic and North American genera are very similar, and were grouped here in F.E. Zeuner's revision.[4][5] They are:
- Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941
- Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
- Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941
- Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941 - Canada and NE Asia
- Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951
Species[edit]
The Orthoptera Species File includes:[2]
- Metrioptera ambigua Pfau, 1986
- Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761) - type species (as Gryllus brachypterus L.)
- Metrioptera buyssoni (Saulcy, 1887)
- Metrioptera caprai Baccetti, 1956
- Metrioptera hoermanni (Werner, 1906)
- Metrioptera karnyana Uvarov, 1924
- Metrioptera maritima Olmo-Vidal, 1992
- Metrioptera prenjica (Burr, 1899)
- Metrioptera saussuriana (Frey-Gessner, 1872)
- Metrioptera tsirojanni Harz & Pfau, 1983
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Wesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592.
- ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
- ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Orthoptera Species File: genus group Metrioptera Zeuner, 1941
External links[edit]
Media related to Metrioptera at Wikimedia Commons
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