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genus

Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941

Greek bush-crickets

Type

Metrioptera parnassica Ramme, 1926 type species by original designation of Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941

Nomenclature (11)

  • Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941: 19.

    type species by original designation Metrioptera parnassica Ramme, 1926

  • Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 in Ramme, 1951: 258.
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  • Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 in Grzywacz, Heller, Chobanov & Warchalowska-Sliwa, 2017
  • Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 in Stefanidis, Kougioumoutzis, Zografou, Fotiadis, Willemse, Tzortzakaki & Kati, 2025

Nomenclature references (11)

  • Chopard, L. (1951) Orthoptéroïdes. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 56, 359 pp. Available at http://faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/L.CHOPARD%28FdeFr56%29Orthopteroides.pdf
  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
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  • Defaut, B. (2001) In La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac. 85 pp.
  • Grzywacz, B., Heller, K.-G., Chobanov, D.P. & Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (2017) Conventional and molecular chromosome study in the European genus Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniinae, Platycleidini). Folia Biologica (Kraków), 65(1), 1–8.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Stefanidis, A., Kougioumoutzis, K., Zografou, K., Fotiadis, G., Willemse, L., Tzortzakaki, O. & Kati, V. (2025) Distribution patterns and habitat preferences of five globally threatened and endemic montane Orthoptera (Parnassiana and Oropodisma). Ecologies, 6(5), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecologies6010005
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1973) Records of Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 from Greece (Orthoptera, Ensifera, Decticinae). Biologia Gallo-Hellenica, 5, 43–55.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1975) Parnassiana menalon spec. nov. from the Peloponnese (Orthoptera, Ensifera, Decticinae). Entomologische Berichten, 35, 88–91. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1013380
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1980) Three new species and some additional notes on Parnassiana Zeuner from Greece (Orthoptera, Ensifera). Entomologische Berichten, 40(7), 103–112. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1013052
  • 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:

Derived from type species Parnassiana parnassica with type locality on Mount Parnassus.

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