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Metrioptera

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Metrioptera
Metrioptera brachyptera male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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Genus group Metrioptera

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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:

  1. Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941
  2. Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
  3. Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941
  4. Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941 - Canada and NE Asia
  5. Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File includes:[2]

  1. Metrioptera ambigua Pfau, 1986
  2. Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761) - type species (as Gryllus brachypterus L.)
  3. Metrioptera buyssoni (Saulcy, 1887)
  4. Metrioptera caprai Baccetti, 1956
  5. Metrioptera hoermanni (Werner, 1906)
  6. Metrioptera karnyana Uvarov, 1924
  7. Metrioptera maritima Olmo-Vidal, 1992
  8. Metrioptera prenjica (Burr, 1899)
  9. Metrioptera saussuriana (Frey-Gessner, 1872)
  10. Metrioptera tsirojanni Harz & Pfau, 1983

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Wesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
  3. ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Orthoptera Species File: genus group Metrioptera Zeuner, 1941
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