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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838

Type

type species by original monotypy of Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838

Nomenclature (26)

  • Decticus (Metrioptera) Wesmaël, 1838: 592.

    type species by original monotypy Gryllus brachypterus Linnaeus, 1761

  • Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838 in Kirby, 1890: 580.
  • Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838 in Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé, 2012: 232.
  • Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838 in Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015: 77.

References (26)

  • Beier, M. (1955) Die jugoslawischen Arten der Platycleidini (Orthoptera-Tettigoniidae-Decticinae). Academia Scientiarum Et Artium Slovenica: Razprave Dissertationes, 3, 211–252.
  • Buzzetti, F.M., Carotti, G. & Heller, K.-G. (2006) Bioacoustics of Metrioptera caprai baccetti Galvagni 1958 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(2), 149–155. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282006%2915%5B149%3ABOMCBG%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Caudell, A.N. (1908) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 72, 1–43 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105244#page/339/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et dermaptères. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 3, 212 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1093568
  • Defaut, B. (1988) La détermination des orthopteroides ouest-paléarctiques 6. Caelifera: Acrididae (suite). 7. Ensifera. 8. Mantodea. Travaux du Laboratoire d'Ecobiologie des arthropodes édaphiques, 6(1), 1–93.
  • Defaut, B. (1999) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 83 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 85 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
  • Grein, G. (1985) Bestimmungsschlüssel fur die Heuschrecken der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und angrenzender Gebiete. In Deutscher Jugendbund fur Naturbeobachtung. Hamburg. Vol. 1985, 1–56 pp.
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Hebard, M. (1939) Studies in Orthoptera which occur in North America north of the Mexican boundary X and XI. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 65(2), 161–191. Available at https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4275_002#page/105/mode/1up
  • Heller, K.-G. (1988) Bioakustik der europäischen Laubheuschrecken. In Ökologie in Forschung und Anwendung. J. Margraf, Weikersheim. Vol. 1, 1–358 pp.
  • International Commission On Zoological Nomenclature, I.C.Z.N. (2004) Opinion 2075 (Case 3200). Gryllus brachypterus Ocskay, 1826 (currently Euthystira brachyptera) and Gryllus brachypterus Haan, 1842 (currently Duolandrevus brachypterus) (Insecta, Orthoptera): specific names conserved. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 61(2), 126–127. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107002#page/144/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1890) On the employment of names proposed for genera of Orthoptera, previous to 1840. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 556–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95855#page/572/mode/1up
  • Kočárek, P., Holusa, J. & Vidlicka, L. (2005) Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera & Dermaptera Ceské a Slovenské republiky. Kabourek, Zlin, Czech Republic, 1–348 pp.
  • Lucas, W.J. (1920) Monograph of the British Orthoptera. Ray Society, London. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/monographofbriti00luca
  • Massa, B. & Fontana, P. (2011) Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837, 1–47. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02837p047.pdf
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna, Vol. 48, 563 pp.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Ramme, W. (1951) Zur Systematik, Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren von Südost-Europa und Vorderasien. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 27, 1–431.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 280 pp. [in Russian]
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Us, P.A. (1992) Fauna of Orthopteroidea - insect group in Slovenia. Slovenska Akad. Znanosti Umetnosti Razred Naravoslovne Vede Dela, 32, 1–325.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1924) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum, 3. Some less known or new genera and species of subfamilies Tettigoniidae and Decticinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 71(3-4), 492–537.
  • Wesmaël, C. (1838) Enumeratio methodica Orthopterorum Belgii. Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 5, 587–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54302#page/635/mode/1up
  • Zeuner, F.E. (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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek μέτρον, something with measure, and πτερόν, wing, alluding to moderately long wings.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species1004353
Subspecies40812