Tropidopola is a genus of grasshoppers, erected by Carl Stål in 1873.[1] It is the type genus of the monotypic tribe Tropidopolini[2] and the subfamily Tropidopolinae. Species are distributed in: central-northern Africa, southern Europe[3] and Asia: near East, India up to Siberia.[4]

Tropidopola
Tropidopola cylindrica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Tropidopolinae
Genus: Tropidopola
Stål, 1873
Synonyms

Opsomala Fieber, 1853

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[4] lists:

  1. Tropidopola cylindrica (Marschall, 1836) - type species (as Opsomala fasciculata Charpentier = T. cylindrica cylindrica, one of 4 subspecies)
  2. Tropidopola daurica Uvarov, 1926
  3. Tropidopola graeca Uvarov, 1926
  4. Tropidopola longicornis (Fieber, 1853)
  5. Tropidopola nigerica Uvarov, 1937
  6. Tropidopola syriaca (Walker, 1871)
  7. Tropidopola turanica Uvarov, 1926

References

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  1. ^ Stål C (1873) Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1: 43, 86.
  2. ^ Jacobson GG (1905)[1902-1905] In Jacobson, G.G. & V.L. Bianchi. Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries 73, 306.
  3. ^ Defaut, Morichon (2015) Faune de France 97(1a,b): 286.
  4. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 15 November 2022)
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