'' Steropleurus'' is a genus of European bush crickets in the

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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.Bolívar I (1878) ''Analecta Orthopterologica. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural'' 7: 449 (available a
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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 r ...

(Steropleurus)''. To date (2022), species have only been recorded from the

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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'' (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 ''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, 1 ...

catalaunicus'' (Bolívar, 1898)

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from=Q10679503 Orthoptera of Europe Ensifera genera Bradyporinae