Metrioptera
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MetriopteraWesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592. is a genus of insects in the tribe Platycleidini and subfamily Tettigoniinae, include the bog and meadow bush crickets. They are found in Eurasia.{{OSF|name=subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902|id=1141619|accessdate=27 December 2018}}
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.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.[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142450 Orthoptera Species File: genus group Metrioptera Zeuner, 1941] They are:
- Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941
- Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838
- Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941
- Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941 - Canada and NE Asia
- Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951
=Species=
The Orthoptera Species File includes:[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142491 Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838]
- 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
References
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