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Pterolepis (bush Cricket)
''Pterolepis'' is a genus of Tettigoniidae, bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and Tribe (biology), tribe Platycleidini erected by Jules Pierre Rambur in 1838.Rambur JP (1838) ''Faune entomologique de l'Andalousie'' 2: 59. The known distribution is from North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. Species The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following accepted species: # ''Pterolepis adolphorum'' (Galvagni, 1988) # ''Pterolepis algerica'' (Uvarov, 1935) # ''Pterolepis augustini'' (Galvagni, 2001) # ''Pterolepis berberica'' (Galvagni, 1989) # ''Pterolepis bidens'' (Uvarov, 1924) # ''Pterolepis claudiae'' (Galvagni, 1988) # ''Pterolepis cordubensis'' Bolívar, 1900 # ''Pterolepis elymica'' Galvagni & Massa, 1980 # ''Pterolepis galitana'' (Uvarov, 1942) # ''Pterolepis gessardi'' Bonnet, 1886 # ''Pterolepis grallata'' (Pantel, 1886) # ''Pterolepis kabylica'' (Galvagni & Fontana, 2000) # ''Pterolepis korsakovi'' (Uvarov, 1942) # ''Pterolepis lagrecai'' (Fontana & Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tettigoniidae
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, the Tettigoniidae are the only extant (living) family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea. They are primarily nocturnal in habit with strident mating calls. Many species exhibit mimicry and camouflage, commonly with shapes and colors similar to leaves. Etymology The family name Tettigoniidae is derived from the genus ''Tettigonia'', first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. In Latin ''tettigonia'' means a kind of small cicada, leafhopper; it is from the Greek τεττιγόνιον ''tettigonion'', the diminutive of the imitative ( onomatopoeic) τέττιξ, ''tettix'', cicada. All of these names such as ''tettix'' with repeated sounds are onomatopoeic, imitating the stridulation of these insects. The common name ''katydid'' is also onomat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
