''Pterolepis'' is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily

Tettigoniinae 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 crick ...

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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

Jules Pierre Rambur Jules Pierre Rambur (21 July 1801 – 10 August 1870) was a French entomologist. Rambur was born in Chinon. He studied the insect fauna of Corsica and Andalusia. He was the author of ''Histoire naturelle des insectes'' (1842) amongst other works ...

in 1838.Rambur JP (1838) ''Faune entomologique de l'Andalousie'' 2: 59. The known distribution is from North Africa and the

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Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: genus'' Pterolepis'' Rambur, 1838 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 December 2022)
/ref> lists the following accepted species: # '' Pterolepis adolphorum'' (Galvagni, 1988) # '' Pterolepis algerica'' (Uvarov, 1935) # '' Pterolepis augustini'' (Galvagni, 2001) # '' Pterolepis berberica'' (Galvagni, 1989) # '' Pterolepis bidens'' (Uvarov, 1924) # '' Pterolepis claudiae'' (Galvagni, 1988) # '' Pterolepis cordubensis'' Bolívar, 1900 # '' Pterolepis elymica'' Galvagni & Massa, 1980 # '' Pterolepis galitana'' (Uvarov, 1942) # '' Pterolepis gessardi'' Bonnet, 1886 # '' Pterolepis grallata'' (Pantel, 1886) # ''

Pterolepis kabylica ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' (Galvagni & Fontana, 2000) # '' Pterolepis korsakovi'' (Uvarov, 1942) # '' Pterolepis lagrecai'' (Fontana & Massa, 2004) # '' Pterolepis lusitanica'' (Bolívar, 1900) # ''

Pterolepis maroccana ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' (Bolívar, 1905) # ''

Pterolepis maura ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' (Bonnet, 1886) # ''

Pterolepis moralesi ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' (Galvagni, 1988) # ''

Pterolepis pedata ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' Costa, 1882 # ''

Pterolepis pieltaini ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' (Morales-Agacino, 1940) # ''

Pterolepis pityusensis ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' Barranco, 2014 # ''

Pterolepis spoliata ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' Rambur, 1838 - type species (''P. spoliata spoliata'': one of 8 subspecies) # ''

Pterolepis theryana ''Pterolepis'' may refer to: * ''Pterolepis'' (bush cricket), a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini * ''Pterolepis'', a fossil genus of jawless fishes in the family Pterygolepididae; synonym of ''Pterygolepis ''Pterygolepis'' ...

'' Uvarov, 1927

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from= Q10645546 Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Europe Ensifera genera Tettigoniinae