Barbitistes

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Barbitistes
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Adult of Barbitistes obtusus , male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
Tribe: Barbitistini
Genus: Barbitistes
Charpentier, 1825

Barbitistes is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. [1]

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Description

In the genus Barbitistes the anterior dorsal surface of the vertex (fastigium) is usually conical and blunt. The length of the antenna is approximately 1.5 - 3 fold to body length. The males have long and often tortuous appendages on the rear-most segments ("cerci"). The Barbitistes species are often brightly colored.

Distribution

Species of this genus are present in much of Europe (but not the British Isles or Scandinavia) and in Asia Minor. [2]

Species

This genus contains the following species: [1] [3]

  1. Barbitistes alpinus Fruhstorfer, 1920
  2. Barbitistes constrictus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
  3. Barbitistes fischeri (Yersin, 1854) (synonym B. berenguieri Fagniez, 1935)
  4. Barbitistes kaltenbachi Harz, 1965
  5. Barbitistes obtusus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1881
  6. Barbitistes ocskayi (Charpentier, 1850)
  7. Barbitistes serricauda (Fabricius, 1798) - type species
  8. Barbitistes vicetinus Galvagni & Fontana, 1993
  9. Barbitistes yersini Brunner, 1878

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