''Platystolus'' is a genus of European
bush crickets in the
tribe
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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 ...
, first described by
Ignacio Bolívar
Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (9 November 1850, Madrid – 19 November 1944, Mexico City) was a Spanish naturalist and entomologist, and one of the founding fathers of Spanish entomology. He helped found the ''Real Sociedad Española de Histor ...
in 1878. To date (2022), species have only been recorded from France and 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
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Platystolus'' Bolívar, 1878 (retrieved 8 January 2023)]
/ref> lists:
# '' Platystolus martinezii'' (Bolívar, 1873)
# '' Platystolus surcularius'' (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 ...
surcularius'' Bolívar)
Note: other species have been included in this genus,BioLib.cz: genus ''Platystolus'' (retrieved 9 January 2023)
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References
External links
Images at iNaturalist
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Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Bradyporinae