Macroteratura is a genus of Asian bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini in the subfamily Meconematinae. The genus was erected by AV Gorochov in 1993 as a subgenus of Teratura (Macroteratura).[1] Species also have been described previously in Kuzicus (Macroteraturus)[2] before being placed in this genus in 2020;[3] records are from China and Vietnam (but the known distribution may be incomplete).[4]

Macroteratura
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Meconematinae
Tribe: Meconematini
Genus: Macroteratura
Gorochov, 1993
Synonyms
  • Macroteraturus Liu & Yin, 2004
  • Macroteratura (Macroteratura) Gorochov, 1993
  • Macroteratura (Stenoteratura) Gorochov, 1993

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File lists the following species:[4]

subgenus Macroteratura Gorochov, 1993
  1. Macroteratura inospina Chen, Cui & Chang, 2020
  2. Macroteratura megafurcula (Tinkham, 1944)
    - type species (as Xiphidiopsis megafurcula Tinkham); locality: Maan Chi Shan, Guangdong, SE China
  3. Macroteratura sinica (Bey-Bienko, 1957)
  4. Macroteratura thrinaca (Qiu & Shi, 2010)
subgenus Stenoteratura Gorochov, 1993
  1. Macroteratura bhutanica (Ingrisch, 2002)
  2. Macroteratura janetscheki (Bey-Bienko, 1968)
  3. Macroteratura kryzhanovskii (Bey-Bienko, 1957)
  4. Macroteratura twinsloba Liu, 2020
  5. Macroteratura yunnanea (Bey-Bienko, 1957)

References

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  1. ^ Gorochov AV (1993) Zoosystematica Rossica 2(1): 70. link to AVG papers
  2. ^ Liu X-W (2004) In Liu, X.-W. & Haisheng Yin. Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea and Stenopelmatoidea. Insects from Mt. Shiwandashan Area of Guangxi 102.
  3. ^ Jin X, Liu X-W, Hanqiang Wang (2020) Zootaxa 4772(1): 42.
  4. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 22 August 2022)
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