'' Steropleurus'' is a genus of European
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, 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.
[Bolívar I (1878) ''Analecta Orthopterologica. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural'' 7: 449 (available a]
Biblioteca digital
. as ''
Ephippiger (Steropleurus)''. To date (2022), species have only 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
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Steropleurus'' Bolívar, 1878 (retrieved 8 January 2023)]
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# '' Steropleurus andalusius'' (Rambur, 1838) (2 subspecies)
# '' Steropleurus brunnerii'' (Bolívar, 1877) - type species (as ''Ephippiger brunnerii'' Bolívar)
# '' Steropleurus castellanus'' (Bolívar, 1878)
# '' Steropleurus flavovittatus'' (Bolívar, 1878)
# '' Steropleurus obsoletus'' (Bolívar, 1898)
# '' Steropleurus pseudolus'' (Bolívar, 1878)
# '' Steropleurus recticarinatus'' (Llorente del Moral, 1980)
Note: ''Steropleurus catalaunicus'', the Catalan Saddle Bush-cricket, is now '' Sorapagus catalaunicus'' (Bolívar, 1898)
References
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Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Bradyporinae