''Miramella'' is a small genus of short-horned

grasshoppers Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grasshop ...

in the subfamily

Melanoplinae The Melanoplinae are a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. They are distributed across the Holarctic and Neotropical realms. They are one of the two largest subfamilies in the Acrididae. As of 2001 the Melanoplinae contained over 8 ...

. They are found in Europe and eastern Asia. , Orthoptera Species File lists seven species in three subgenera. The genus was first named in 1932. ''Miramella'' is the type genus of the

subtribe Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plant ...

Miramellina (Acrididae: Melanoplinae:

Podismini Podismini is a tribe of "spur-throated grasshoppers" in the family Acrididae. This tribe is unlike others in the subfamily Melanoplinae in that a substantial number of genera occur outside the Americas (but there are about 12 in N. America). Sub ...

). Species in the genus ''Mirabella'' occur in a variety of habitats, with some found at up to above sea level in the Swiss alps, including alpine, subalpine, montane, and submontane meadows. The conservation status of three species have been assessed on the

IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ...

—'' Miramella carinthiaca'', '' M. irena'', and '' M. alpina''. They are each listed as species of "

least concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

Subgenera and species

Subgenera and species include: * Subgenus ''Galvagniella'' Harz, 1973 (southeastern Europe) ** ''

Miramella albanica ''Miramella'' is a small genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the subfamily Melanoplinae. They are found in Europe and eastern Asia. , Orthoptera Species File lists seven species in three subgenera. The genus was first named in 1932. ''Miramell ...

'' Mistshenko, 1952 – Balkan Mountain grasshopper * Subgenus ''Kisella'' Harz, 1973 (western and central Europe) ** ''

Miramella alpina ''Miramella alpina'', the 'Green Mountain Grasshopper', is a species of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Melanoplinae. Subspecies * ''Miramella alpina'' var. ''alpina'' (Kollar, 1833) * ''Miramella alpina ...

'' (Kollar, 1833) – green mountain grasshopper ** '' Miramella carinthiaca'' (Obenberger, 1926) – Karinthian Mountain grasshopper (southeastern Alps) ** ''

Miramella irena ''Miramella irena'' is a species of insect in family Acrididae. It is found in Hungary and Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europ ...

'' (Fruhstorfer, 1921) – long-winged mountain grasshopper (southeastern Alps) * Subgenus ''Miramella'' Dovnar-Zapolskij, 1932 (eastern Asia) ** ''

Miramella changbaishanensis ''Miramella'' is a small genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the subfamily Melanoplinae. They are found in Europe and eastern Asia. , Orthoptera Species File lists seven species in three subgenera. The genus was first named in 1932. ''Miramell ...

'' Gong, J., Z. Zheng & Lian, 1995 ** ''

Miramella rufipenne ''Miramella'' is a small genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the subfamily Melanoplinae. They are found in Europe and eastern Asia. , Orthoptera Species File lists seven species in three subgenera. The genus was first named in 1932. ''Miramell ...

'' Chang, K.S.F., 1940 ** '' Miramella solitaria'' (Ikonnikov, 1911), type species of the genus, as ''

Podisma ''Podisma'' is a genus of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae and the subfamily Melanoplinae. Distribution Grasshopper species in this genus are recorded mainland Europe (including Norway, but not the British Isles), th ...

solitaria'' (Korea, far east Russia, northeastern China) Genera with species formerly considered part of ''Mirabella'' include '' Capraiuscola'', ''

Nadigella ''Nadigella'' is a genus of spur-throated grasshoppers in the family Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of th ...

'', ''

Parapodisma ''Parapodisma'' is a genus of spur-throated grasshoppers in the family Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of t ...

'', ''

'', and '' Sinopodisma''.

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q6872719 Melanoplinae Caelifera genera Orthoptera of Europe Orthoptera of Asia