'' 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 is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
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 Hist ...
in 1878.
[Bolívar I (1878) ''Analecta Orthopterologica. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural'' 7: 449 (available a]
Biblioteca digital
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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 re ...
(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
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
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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
'' 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 (availabl ...
'' (Rambur, 1838) (2 subspecies)
# ''Steropleurus brunnerii
'' 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 (availabl ...
'' (Bolívar, 1877) - type species (as ''Ephippiger brunnerii'' Bolívar)
# ''Steropleurus castellanus
'' 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 (availabl ...
'' (Bolívar, 1878)
# ''Steropleurus flavovittatus
'' 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 (availabl ...
'' (Bolívar, 1878)
# ''Steropleurus obsoletus
'' 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 (availabl ...
'' (Bolívar, 1898)
# ''Steropleurus pseudolus
'' 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 (availabl ...
'' (Bolívar, 1878)
# ''Steropleurus recticarinatus
'' 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 (availabl ...
'' (Llorente del Moral, 1980)
Note: ''Steropleurus catalaunicus'', the Catalan Saddle Bush-cricket, is now ''Sorapagus
''Sorapagus'' is a monotypic genus of bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, erected by Barat in 2012. The single species had long been placed in the genus '' Steropleurus''.Burr (1910) ''Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe'' 122, ...
catalaunicus'' (Bolívar, 1898)
References
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Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Bradyporinae