Metrioptera

Metrioptera
	Metrioptera brachyptera male
Scientific 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

Genus group Metrioptera

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:

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:^[2]

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

References

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

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[1] Wesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592.

[osf-2] Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838

[osf1141619-3] 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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