Metrioptera

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Genus of cricket-like animals

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::summary Genus of cricket-like animals ::

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Metrioptera is a genus of insects in the tribe Platycleidini and subfamily Tettigoniinae, include the bog and meadow bush crickets. They are found in Eurasia.

Taxonomy

Genus group ''Metrioptera''

A number of Palaearctic and North American genera are very similar, and were grouped here in F.E. Zeuner's revision. 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

The Orthoptera Species File includes:

  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

References

References

  1. Wesmaël (1838) ''Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles'' 5: 592.
  2. {{OSF|name=subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902|id=1141619|accessdate=27 December 2018}}
  3. 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.
  4. [http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142450 Orthoptera Species File: genus group ''Metrioptera'' Zeuner, 1941]
  5. [http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142491 Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Metrioptera'' Wesmaël, 1838]

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