''Montana'' is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe

Platycleidini 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 cricke ...

, erected by F.E. Zeuner in 1941. The type species, ''M. montana'' has been called the "Steppe Bush-Cricket". Some authoritiesRagge D (1990) ''Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.'' 59(1): 9. previously placed this as a subgenus of ''

Platycleis ''Platycleis'' is a genus of bush crickets described by Fieber in 1853, belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae. The species of this genus are present in Europe, North Africa and temperate Asia. Biology Studies conducted in 2010 at the Univer ...

'', but it is now considered a separate genus, as part of the genus group ''Platycleis''. Species can be found in the northern Palaearctic realm from mainland western Europe (not the British Isles) through to Siberia.

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Montana'' Zeuner, 1941 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022)
/ref> lists the following accepted species: # '' Montana armeniaca'' (Ramme, 1930) # '' Montana barretii'' (Burr, 1912) # '' Montana carpetana'' (Bolívar, 1887) # '' Montana daghestanica'' (Uvarov, 1917) # '' Montana decticiformis'' (Stshelkanovtzev, 1914) # '' Montana elegans'' (Uvarov, 1934) # '' Montana eversmanni'' (Kittary, 1849) # '' Montana gaskoi'' Garai, 2011 # '' Montana heinrichi'' (Ramme, 1929) # '' Montana helleri'' (Çiplak & Taylan, 2006) # '' Montana kure'' (Ünal, 2006) # ''

Montana macedonica Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...

'' (Berland & Chopard, 1922) # '' Montana medvedevi'' (Miram, 1927) # '' Montana montana'' (Kollar, 1833) = type species (as ''Locusta montana'' Kollar) # '' Montana richteri'' (Bey-Bienko, 1958) # '' Montana schereri'' (Werner, 1901) # '' Montana striata'' (Thunberg, 1815) # '' Montana stricta'' (Zeller, 1849) # '' Montana taurica'' (Bolívar, 1899) # '' Montana tianshanica'' (Uvarov, 1933) # '' Montana tomini'' (Pylnov, 1916) # '' Montana uvarovi'' Karabag, 1950 # '' Montana zanjanica'' Garai, 2011

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from=Q10588738 Orthoptera of Europe Ensifera genera Tettigoniinae