MetriopteraWesmaël (1838) Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 5: 592. 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.Zeuner FE (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.Orthoptera Species File: genus group Metrioptera Zeuner, 1941 They are: Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941 Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838 Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941 Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941 - Canada and NE Asia Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951
Species The Orthoptera Species File includes:Orthoptera Species File: genus Metrioptera Wesmaël, 1838 Metrioptera ambigua Pfau, 1986 Metrioptera brachyptera (Linnaeus, 1761) - type species (as Gryllus brachypterus L.) Metrioptera buyssoni (Saulcy, 1887) Metrioptera caprai Baccetti, 1956 Metrioptera hoermanni (Werner, 1906) Metrioptera karnyana Uvarov, 1924 Metrioptera maritima Olmo-Vidal, 1992 Metrioptera prenjica (Burr, 1899) Metrioptera saussuriana (Frey-Gessner, 1872) Metrioptera tsirojanni Harz & Pfau, 1983
See also List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe
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