Platypygius
{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}
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Platypygius is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Epacromiini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1942.Uvarov BP (1942) New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67(4): 337, 343 [1941]. The recorded distribution of species is the Iberian Peninsula though southern Europe to the Caucasus range (distribution may be incomplete).
Species
The Orthoptera Species File[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1103456 Orthoptera Species File: genus Platypygius Uvarov, 1942 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)] lists:
- Platypygius crassus (Karny, 1907)
- Platypygius platypygius (Pantel, 1886) - type species (as Epacromia platypygia Pantel)
References
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External links
- [http://www.pyrgus.de/Platypygius_en.html European locusts and their ecology: Platypygius at pyrgus.de]
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Epacromiini}}
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