Roeseliana[1] is a genus of bush cricket or katydid in the subfamily Tettigoniinae.[2][3] Species in this genus were placed at various times in the genera Metrioptera and Bicolorana, until Roeseliana was restored in 2011,[4] with these and other similar genera placed in genus group Metrioptera.

Roeseliana
Roeseliana (Metrioptera) roeselii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Roeseliana
Zeuner, 1941


Species

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These species belong to the genus Roeseliana:[3]

  1. Roeseliana ambitiosa (Uvarov, 1924)
  2. Roeseliana azami (Finot, 1892)
  3. Roeseliana bispina (Bolívar, 1899)
  4. Roeseliana brunneri Ramme, 1951
  5. Roeseliana epirotica Lemonnier-Darcemont & Darcemont, 2023 - Greece
  6. Roeseliana fedtschenkoi (Saussure, 1874) (2 subspp.)
  7. Roeseliana oporina (Bolívar, 1887)
  8. Roeseliana pylnovi (Uvarov, 1924)
  9. Roeseliana roeselii (Hagenbach, 1822) - type species

References

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  1. ^ Zeuner FE (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 91: 1–50, figs. 1–45.
  2. ^ "Roeseliana". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  3. ^ a b Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2024). "genus Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  4. ^ Massa & Fontana (2011) Zootaxa 2837: 16.

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