''Sorapagus'' is a
monotypic genus
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
of
bush crickets in the
tribe
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Ephippigerini, erected by Barat in 2012. The single species had long been placed in the genus ''
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 ...
''.
[Burr (1910) ''Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe'' 122, 124]
Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''
[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Sorapagus'' Barat, 2012 (retrieved 8 January 2023)]
/ref> only includes ''Sorapagus catalaunicus'' (Bolívar, 1898) in this genus. It is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to Pyrénées
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and sometimes called the Catalan saddle bush-cricket.
References
External links
Atlas of Catalan Orthoptera
(in Spanish)
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Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Bradyporinae
Monotypic Orthoptera genera