''Bicolorana bicolor'' is a species of bush cricket in the subfamily

Tettigoniinae The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve tribes. Distribution The greatest diversity is in the Palaearctic region and many of the familiar European species of bush crick ...

and tribe Platycleidini: found in mainland Western Europe''Orthoptera Species File''. Eades D.C., Otte D., Cigliano M.M., Braun H.
/ref> Individuals are normally

brachypterous Brachyptery is an anatomical condition in which an animal has very reduced wings. Such animals or their wings may be described as "brachypterous". Another descriptor for very small wings is microptery. Brachypterous wings generally are not functi ...

, but long-winged forms may be encountered. The species was originally described by RA Philippi in 1830 as "''

Locusta Locusta or Lucusta (died 69), was a notorious maker of poisons in the 1st-century Roman Empire, active in the final two reigns of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She supposedly took part in the assassinations of Claudius and Britannicus. She was a f ...

bicolor''".

Subspecies

The

Catalogue of Life The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Info ...

lists: * ''Bicolorana bicolor angarica'' * ''Bicolorana bicolor bicolor''

Gallery

Metrioptera bicolor, macropterous male (3897542845).jpg, ''B. bicolor'', macropterous male Metrioptera bicolor forma diluta m 10947.jpg Kelsterbach fg37.jpg, male being parasitised by ''

Sphex funerarius ''Sphex funerarius'', the golden digger wasp, is a species of digger wasp of the family Sphecidae. Description ''Sphex funerarius'' can reach a length of . These large, solitary, ground-nesting wasps are black with an orange-red large band on ...

'' Metrioptera bicolor (2388981528).jpg

References

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q10429402, from2=Q232634 Orthoptera of Europe Tettigoniidae Insects described in 1830