Bicolorana

Bicolorana
Bicolorana bicolor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Bicolorana
Zeuner, 1941

Bicolorana[1] is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and tribe Platycleidini. Species can be found in many parts of mainland Europe (but not the British Isles, Iberia or most of Scandinavia), through central Asia to the Korean peninsula.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following:[2]

  1. Bicolorana bicolor Philippi, 1830 - type species (as Locusta bicolor Philippi = Bicolorana bicolor bicolor)
  2. Bicolorana burri Uvarov, 1921
  3. Bicolorana kraussi (Padewieth, 1900), the Croatian Meadow Bush-cricket (synonym B. kuntzeni Ramme, 1931[3])

Moved species

Some sources[4] may list species names that are now placed in the genus Roeseliana:

Both these and other genera are very similar, they are now placed in genus group Metrioptera.

References

  1. ^ Zeuner (1941) Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 91: 44.
  2. ^ Orthoptera Species File Bicolorana
  3. ^ Orthoptera Species File: species Bicolorana kraussi (Padewieth, 1900)
  4. ^ Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 10 June 2018.