Parnassiana

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Parnassiana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Parnassiana
Zeuner, 1941
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Parnassiana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis, erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941. [1] Species have been called "Greek bush-crickets" and members of this genus have been recorded mostly from that country. [2]

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Habitat and life cycle

Grecian species such as P. chelmos and P. fusca often live in upland (1200-2300 m.) pastures and with thorny, low-growing shrubs such as Astragalus spp., often perched in these, rather than near the ground. Adults can typically be found between July and October. Several species are locally endemic: for example, P. fusca is only found on Mount Taygetos in the southern Peloponnese. [3]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File [2] lists the following:

  1. Parnassiana chelmos (Zeuner, 1941) (3 subspecies)
  2. Parnassiana coracis (Ramme, 1921)
  3. Parnassiana dirphys (Willemse, 1980)
  4. Parnassiana fusca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)
  5. Parnassiana gionica La Greca & Messina, 1976
  6. Parnassiana menalon Willemse, 1975
  7. Parnassiana nigromarginata (Willemse & Willemse, 1987)
  8. Parnassiana panaetolikon Willemse, 1980
  9. Parnassiana parnassica (Ramme, 1926) - type species (as Metrioptera parnassicaRamme)
  10. Parnassiana parnon Willemse, 1980
  11. Parnassiana tenuis (Heller & Willemse, 1989)
  12. Parnassiana tymphiensis (Willemse, 1973)
  13. Parnassiana tymphrestos Zeuner, 1941

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References

  1. 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 [19]. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1941.tb03001.x.
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: genus Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022)
  3. Wagner W: European locusts and their ecology