Pterolepis is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and tribe Platycleidini erected by Jules Pierre Rambur in 1838.[1] The known distribution is from North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.[2]
| Pterolepis | |
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| Pterolepsis cf. spoliata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Tribe: | Platycleidini |
| Genus: | Pterolepis Rambur, 1838 |
| Synonyms | |
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Scirtobaenus Pantel, 1886 | |
Species
editThe Orthoptera Species File[2] lists the following accepted species:
- Pterolepis adolphorum (Galvagni, 1988)
- Pterolepis algerica (Uvarov, 1935)
- Pterolepis augustini (Galvagni, 2001)
- Pterolepis berberica (Galvagni, 1989)
- Pterolepis bidens (Uvarov, 1924)
- Pterolepis claudiae (Galvagni, 1988)
- Pterolepis cordubensis Bolívar, 1900
- Pterolepis elymica Galvagni & Massa, 1980
- Pterolepis galitana (Uvarov, 1942)
- Pterolepis gessardi Bonnet, 1886
- Pterolepis grallata (Pantel, 1886)
- Pterolepis kabylica (Galvagni & Fontana, 2000)
- Pterolepis korsakovi (Uvarov, 1942)
- Pterolepis lagrecai (Fontana & Massa, 2004)
- Pterolepis lusitanica (Bolívar, 1900)
- Pterolepis maroccana (Bolívar, 1905)
- Pterolepis maura (Bonnet, 1886)
- Pterolepis moralesi (Galvagni, 1988)
- Pterolepis pedata Costa, 1882
- Pterolepis pieltaini (Morales-Agacino, 1940)
- Pterolepis pityusensis Barranco, 2014
- Pterolepis spoliata Rambur, 1838 - type species (P. spoliata spoliata: one of 8 subspecies)
- Pterolepis theryana Uvarov, 1927
References
edit- ^ Rambur JP (1838) Faune entomologique de l'Andalousie 2: 59.
- ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Pterolepis Rambur, 1838 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 December 2022)
External links
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Data related to Platycleidini at Wikispecies
Media related to Pterolepis (bush cricket) at Wikimedia Commons
