Incertana
| Incertana | |
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| Incertana drepanensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Tribe: | Platycleidini |
| Genus: | Incertana Zeuner, 1941 |
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Decorana Zeuner, 1941 | |
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Incertana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941.[1] Species have been recorded (probably an incomplete distribution) from: North Africa, southern Europe (the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, the Balkans through to Turkey), the Middle East and the Himalayas.[2] Placed in genus group Platycleis,[2] literature on the type species and others often refers to that genus.
Species
[edit]The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists the following:
- Incertana arabica (Popov, 1981)
- Incertana buxtoni (Uvarov, 1923)
- Incertana capitata (Uvarov, 1917)
- Incertana concinna (Walker, 1869)
- Incertana decorata (Fieber, 1853)
- Incertana drepanensis (Massa, Fontana & Buzzetti, 2006)
- Incertana himalayana (Ramme, 1933)
- Incertana incerta (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) - type species (as Platycleis incerta Brunner von Wattenwyl)
- Incertana kabyla (Finot, 1893)
- Incertana persica (Uvarov, 1917)
- Incertana seniae (Finot, 1893)
- Incertana tripolitana (Fontana & Massa, 2009)
References
[edit]- ^ Zeuner, F. E. (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 [15]. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1941.tb03001.x.
- ^ a b c Orthoptera Species File: genus Incertana Zeuner, 1941 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022)
