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Poecilimon cretensis Werner, 1903

Cretan Bright Bush-cricket
CollectionObject 1498460; 4b417d9e-9411-4767-8183-41c1136a8d12: female (Kriti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498460; 4b417d9e-9411-4767-8183-41c1136a8d12: female (Kriti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498460; 4b417d9e-9411-4767-8183-41c1136a8d12: female (Kriti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498460; 4b417d9e-9411-4767-8183-41c1136a8d12: female (Kriti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498460; 4b417d9e-9411-4767-8183-41c1136a8d12: female (Kriti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1498460; 4b417d9e-9411-4767-8183-41c1136a8d12: female (Kriti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536656; b8d167e4-a394-49c4-9c23-183a40b1b0ca, CH0117: male. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536657; 4aa0438b-cf15-4517-ac4c-39ab442d8034, CH6947: male, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536657; 4aa0438b-cf15-4517-ac4c-39ab442d8034, CH6947: male, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588111; 128a6bc3-b6bd-4a67-88d3-4ba9cc2dbf72: female (GR: Crete, Skaloti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588111; 128a6bc3-b6bd-4a67-88d3-4ba9cc2dbf72: female (GR: Crete, Skaloti). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588111; 128a6bc3-b6bd-4a67-88d3-4ba9cc2dbf72: male (GR: Crete, Skaloti). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (17)

  • Poecilimon jonicus var. cretensis Werner, 1903: 67.

    Syntype; 2ba660c2-46e2-4a5b-8ba9-11432a876e15; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); Kriti

  • Poecilimon cretensis Werner, 1903 in Kirby, 1906: 376.
  • Poecilimon cretensis Werner, 1903 in Kaya, Chobanov, Heller, Yahyaoğlu, Uluar & Çıplak, 2018: 469.
  • Poecilimon cretensis Werner, 1903 in Karakaş, Yahyaoğlu, Uluar, Budak & Çıplak, 2023: 141.

References (13)

  • Werner, F. (1903) Über die von Herrn Dr. Karl Grafen Attems aus Kreta mitgebrachten Orthopteren. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 53, 65–89. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48810
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Kuthy, D. (1907) Insectorum messis in insula Creta a Lud. Biró congregata. I. Orthoptera. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 5, 551–555. Available at http://publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/annHNHM/Annals_HNHM_1907_Vol_5_2_551.pdf
  • Ramme, W. (1927) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren Siziliens und Kretas, mit kritischen Beiträgen und Revision aus den Gattungen Hololampra Sauss., Acrometopa Fieb., Pholidoptera Br., Platycleis Fieb., u.a. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 3, 111–200. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/138731
  • Ramme, W. (1933) Revision der Phaneropterinen-Gattung Poecilimon Fisch. (Orth. Tettigon.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 19, 497–575.
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1982) A survey of the Greek species of Poecilimon Fischer (Orthoptera, Ensifera, Phaneropterinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 125(6), 155–203. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89572#page/189/mode/1up
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1984) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I., 1–275.
  • Heller, K.-G. (1988) Bioakustik der europäischen Laubheuschrecken. In Ökologie in Forschung und Anwendung. J. Margraf, Weikersheim. Vol. 1, 1–358 pp.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.
  • Kaya, S., Chobanov, D.P., Heller, K.-G., Yahyaoğlu, Ö., Uluar, O. & Çıplak, B. (2018) Review of Poecilimon species with inflated pronotum: description of four new taxa within an acoustically diverse group. Zootaxa, 4462(4), 451–482.
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.
  • Karakaş, M.Y., Yahyaoğlu, Ö., Uluar, O., Budak, M. & Çıplak, B. (2023) Mitochondrial genome of Poecilimon cretensis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae): Strong phylogenetic signals in gene overlapping regions. Zootaxa, 5263(1), 141–147.

Descendants and synonyms

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Named after distribution.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1023