''Parasteropleurus'' is a genus of
bush crickets in the
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
Ephippigerini
The Bradyporinae are a subfamily in the family Tettigoniidae (bush crickets or katydids), based on the type genus '' Bradyporus''. First described as a family, "Bradyporidae" (Burmeister, H., 1838), the first use as Bradyporinae was by Brunner v ...
, erected by Barat in 2012
[Barat (2012) Revisión preliminar de los géneros de Ephippigerini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Bradyporinae). ''Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa'' 50: 36.] with insects that resembled ''
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 ...
''. To date (2022) species have been recorded from the
Iberian peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
and North Africa.
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Parasteropleurus'' Barat, 2012 (retrieved 8 January 2023)]
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# ''Parasteropleurus algericus
''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). ''Bole ...
'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)
# ''Parasteropleurus balearicus
''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). ''Bole ...
'' (Bolívar, 1884)
# ''Parasteropleurus gracilis
''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). ''Bole ...
'' (Nadig, 1981)
# ''Parasteropleurus inenormis
''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). ''Bole ...
'' (Bolívar, 1907)
# ''Parasteropleurus lucasi
''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). ''Bole ...
'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)
# '' Parasteropleurus martorellii'' (Bolívar, 1878) (2 subspcies)
# '' Parasteropleurus nerii'' (Vosseler, 1902) (2 subspcies)
# ''Parasteropleurus perezii
''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). ''Bole ...
'' (Bolívar, 1877) - type species (as ''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 r ...
perezii'' Bolívar)
References
External links
Images at iNaturalist
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Orthoptera of Africa
Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Bradyporinae