Montana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by F.E. Zeuner in 1941.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: 15. The type species, M. montana has been called the "Steppe Bush-Cricket".iNaturalist: Steppe Bush-Cricket (Montana montana) Some authoritiesHarz (1969) Ser. Entomol. 5: 250-254.Ragge D (1990) Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 59(1): 9. previously placed this as a subgenus of Platycleis, but it is now considered a separate genus, as part of the genus group Platycleis. Species can be found in the northern Palaearctic realm from mainland western Europe (not the British Isles) through to Siberia.
Species The Orthoptera Species FileOrthoptera Species File: genus Montana Zeuner, 1941 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022) lists the following accepted species:
Montana armeniaca (Ramme, 1930) Montana barretii (Burr, 1912) Montana carpetana (Bolívar, 1887) Montana daghestanica (Uvarov, 1917) Montana decticiformis (Stshelkanovtzev, 1914) Montana elegans (Uvarov, 1934) Montana eversmanni (Kittary, 1849) Montana gaskoi Garai, 2011 Montana heinrichi (Ramme, 1929) Montana helleri (Çiplak & Taylan, 2006) Montana kure (Ünal, 2006) Montana macedonica (Berland & Chopard, 1922) Montana medvedevi (Miram, 1927) Montana montana (Kollar, 1833) = type species (as Locusta montana Kollar) Montana richteri (Bey-Bienko, 1958) Montana schereri (Werner, 1901) Montana striata (Thunberg, 1815) Montana stricta (Zeller, 1849) Montana taurica (Bolívar, 1899) Montana tianshanica (Uvarov, 1933) Montana tomini (Pylnov, 1916) Montana uvarovi Karabag, 1950 Montana zanjanica Garai, 2011
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