The Bradyporinae are a subfamily in the family
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, ...
(bush crickets or katydids), based on the type genus ''
Bradyporus
''Bradyporus'' is a genus of bush crickets, found in south-eastern Europe and western and central Asia. It is the type genus of the subfamily Bradyporinae and tribe Bradyporini.
Species
Species within this genus include:
;subgenus ''Bradyporus' ...
''. First described as a family, "Bradyporidae" (Burmeister, H., 1838), the first use as Bradyporinae was by
Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1878.
Genera in this subfamily are mostly distributed in Europe, North Africa, through to temperate/subtropical Asia.
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Tribes and genera
Bradyporini
Auth.: Burmeister, 1838
* ''Bradyporus
''Bradyporus'' is a genus of bush crickets, found in south-eastern Europe and western and central Asia. It is the type genus of the subfamily Bradyporinae and tribe Bradyporini.
Species
Species within this genus include:
;subgenus ''Bradyporus' ...
'' Charpentier, 1825
* ''Pycnogaster
''Pycnogaster'' is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Bradyporini erected by Mariano de la Paz Graells y de la Agüera in 1851.Graells M de la P (1851) Descripción de algunos insectos nuevos pertenecientes a la fauna central de España. ''M ...
'' Graells, 1851
Ephippigerini
Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
* '' Afrosteropleurus'' Barat, 2012
* '' Albarracinia'' Barat, 2012 - monotypic ''A. zapaterii'' (Bolívar, 1877)
* ''Baratia
''Baratia'' is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, described in 2021.
To date, this is a monotypic genus
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A mo ...
'' Llucià Pomares, 2021 - monotypic
* ''Baetica
Hispania Baetica, often abbreviated Baetica, was one of three Roman provinces in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula). Baetica was bordered to the west by Lusitania, and to the northeast by Hispania Tarraconensis. Baetica remained one of the basic d ...
'' Bolivar, I., 1903 - monotypic
* '' Callicrania'' Bolívar, 1898
* '' Corsteropleurus'' Barat, 2012 - monotypic '' Corsteropleurus chopardi'' (Rungs, 1952)
* ''Ephippiger
''Ephippiger'' is a bush cricket genus described by Berthold in 1827, belonging to the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Bradyporinae and tribe Ephippigerini.
Description
In this genus, the bush crickets have very small wings and the pronotum re ...
'' Berthold, 1827
* ''Ephippigerida
''Ephippigerida'' is a genus of European bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, first described by Ignacio Bolívar in 1903 as ''Uromenus (Ephippigerida)''. To date (2022) species have only been recorded from the Iberian peninsula.
Speci ...
'' Bolivar, 1903
* '' Lluciapomaresius'' Barat, 2012
* '' Lucasinova'' Barat, 2012 - monotypic ''L. nigromarginata'' (Lucas, 1849)
* ''Neocallicrania
''Neocallicrania'' is a genus of armoured ground-crickets in the family Tettigoniidae. There are about six described species in ''Neocallicrania'', found mainly in southwest Europe.
Species
These six species belong to the genus ''Neocallicrania ...
'' Pfau, 1996
* ''Parasteropleurus
''Parasteropleurus'' is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, erected by Barat in 2012Barat (2012) Revisión preliminar de los géneros de Ephippigerini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Bradyporinae). ''Bol ...
'' Barat, 2012
* ''Platystolus
''Platystolus'' is a genus of European bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, first described by Ignacio Bolívar in 1878. To date (2022), species have only been recorded from France and the Iberian peninsula.
Species
The ''Orthoptera Sp ...
'' Bolivar, I., 1878
* '' Praephippigera'' Bolivar, 1903
* '' Sabaterpia'' Barat, 2012
* ''Sorapagus
''Sorapagus'' is a monotypic genus of bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, erected by Barat in 2012. The single species had long been placed in the genus '' Steropleurus''.Burr (1910) ''Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe'' 122, ...
'' Barat, 2012 - monotypic ''S. catalaunicus'' (Bolívar, 1898)
* ''Steropleurus
'' Steropleurus'' is a genus of European bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, first described by Ignacio Bolívar in 1878.Bolívar I (1878) ''Analecta Orthopterologica. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural'' 7: 449 (availab ...
'' Bolivar, 1878
* '' Synephippius'' Navás, 1905 - monotypic ''S. obvius'' (Navás, 1904)
* ''Uromenus
''Uromenus'' is a genus of bush crickets in the sub-family Bradyporinae and tribe Ephippigerini.
Distribution and Description
Species in this genus are found throughout much of mainland Europe and northern Africa. The type species '' U. rugo ...
'' Bolivar, 1878
Zichyini
Auth.: Bolivar I, 1901; distribution: Asia (mostly temperate)
* '' Damalacantha'' Bei-Bienko, 1951
* '' Deracantha'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1833
* '' Deracanthella'' Bolivar, I., 1901
* '' Deracanthina'' Bei-Bienko, 1951
* '' Zichya'' Bolivar, I., 1901
References
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Orthoptera subfamilies