Elbenia is a genus of Asian bush crickets or katydids in the subfamily Phaneropterinae and tribe Holochlorini. It was originally erected by Carl Stål in 1876,Stål C (1876) Observations orthoptérologiques 2. Les genres des Acridiodées de la faune Européenne. Aperçu des genres des Acridiodées de l'Amérique du Nord. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 4(5), 1–58. Available here but was subject to a major review by Andrey Gorochov in 2023,Gorochov AV (2023) Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from East Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 16. Far Eastern Entomologist, 485, 7–28. DOI where species in the former genus Tamdaopteron were placed here as a subgenus together with new descriptions. Records for species occurrence are from Vietnam and Malesia.
Subgenera and species the Orthoptera Species FileOrthoptera Species File: genus Elbenia Stål, 1876 (retrieved 21 August 2026) includes six subgenera and lists the following species:
Elbenia (Aequapteron) (peninsular Malaysia) Elbenia appressa Elbenia bispinosa Elbenia (Elbenia) (Malesia) Elbenia apicata Elbenia bakeri Elbenia borneensis Elbenia brevixipha Elbenia carinata Elbenia digitata Elbenia eudigitata Elbenia fissa Elbenia fusca Elbenia modesta Elbenia neodigitata Elbenia nigrosignata - type species Elbenia paradigitata Elbenia semicarinata Elbenia serraticauda Elbenia tenera Elbenia (Hemielbenia) (peninsular Malaysia) Elbenia dyscrita Elbenia (Javapteron) (Java) Elbenia javanica Elbenia (Sulapteron) (S.E. Sulawesi) Elbenia kendariensis Elbenia (Tamdaopteron) Elbenia appendiculata Elbenia daedala Elbenia major Elbenia minor Elbenia pendleburyi Elbenia robinsoni Elbenia ryabovi Elbenia smedleyi Elbenia subrecta Elbenia tembelingi No subgenus assigned Elbenia fraser Elbenia jacobsonii Elbenia loliifolia Elbenia makilingae Elbenia manillensis
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