Metrioptera

Metrioptera is a genus of insects in the tribe Platycleidini and subfamily Tettigoniinae, include the bog and meadow bush crickets. They are found in Eurasia.

Taxonomy

Genus group Metrioptera

A number of Palaearctic and North American genera are very similar, and were grouped here in F.E. Zeuner's revision. They are:

1. Bicolorana <small>Zeuner, 1941</small>
2. Metrioptera <small>Wesmaël, 1838</small>
3. Roeseliana <small>Zeuner, 1941</small>
4. Sphagniana <small>Zeuner, 1941</small> - Canada and NE Asia
5. Zeuneriana <small>Ramme, 1951</small>

Species

The Orthoptera Species File includes:

1. Metrioptera ambigua <small>Pfau, 1986</small>
2. Metrioptera brachyptera <small>(Linnaeus, 1761)</small> - type species (as Gryllus brachypterus L.)
3. Metrioptera buyssoni <small>(Saulcy, 1887)</small>
4. Metrioptera caprai <small>Baccetti, 1956</small>
5. Metrioptera hoermanni <small>(Werner, 1906)</small>
6. Metrioptera karnyana <small>Uvarov, 1924</small>
7. Metrioptera maritima <small>Olmo-Vidal, 1992</small>
8. Metrioptera prenjica <small>(Burr, 1899)</small>
9. Metrioptera saussuriana <small>(Frey-Gessner, 1872)</small>
10. Metrioptera tsirojanni <small>Harz & Pfau, 1983</small>

See also

• List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe

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