Pterolepis (bush cricket)

Pterolepis is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and tribe Platycleidini erected by Jules Pierre Rambur in 1838.[1] The known distribution is from North Africa and the Iberian peninsula.[2]

Pterolepis
Pterolepsis cf. spoliata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Pterolepis
Rambur, 1838
Synonyms

Scirtobaenus Pantel, 1886

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists the following accepted species:

  1. Pterolepis adolphorum (Galvagni, 1988)
  2. Pterolepis algerica (Uvarov, 1935)
  3. Pterolepis augustini (Galvagni, 2001)
  4. Pterolepis berberica (Galvagni, 1989)
  5. Pterolepis bidens (Uvarov, 1924)
  6. Pterolepis claudiae (Galvagni, 1988)
  7. Pterolepis cordubensis Bolívar, 1900
  8. Pterolepis elymica Galvagni & Massa, 1980
  9. Pterolepis galitana (Uvarov, 1942)
  10. Pterolepis gessardi Bonnet, 1886
  11. Pterolepis grallata (Pantel, 1886)
  12. Pterolepis kabylica (Galvagni & Fontana, 2000)
  13. Pterolepis korsakovi (Uvarov, 1942)
  14. Pterolepis lagrecai (Fontana & Massa, 2004)
  15. Pterolepis lusitanica (Bolívar, 1900)
  16. Pterolepis maroccana (Bolívar, 1905)
  17. Pterolepis maura (Bonnet, 1886)
  18. Pterolepis moralesi (Galvagni, 1988)
  19. Pterolepis pedata Costa, 1882
  20. Pterolepis pieltaini (Morales-Agacino, 1940)
  21. Pterolepis pityusensis Barranco, 2014
  22. Pterolepis spoliata Rambur, 1838 - type species (P. spoliata spoliata: one of 8 subspecies)
  23. Pterolepis theryana Uvarov, 1927

References
  1. Rambur JP (1838) Faune entomologique de l'Andalousie 2: 59.
  2. Orthoptera Species File: genus Pterolepis Rambur, 1838 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 December 2022)
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