Platypygius

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Platypygius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Tribe: Epacromiini
Genus: Platypygius
Uvarov, 1942
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Platypygius is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Epacromiini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1942. [1] The recorded distribution of species is the Iberian peninsula though southern Europe to the Caucasus range (distribution may be incomplete). [2]

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Species

The Orthoptera Species File [2] lists:

  1. Platypygius crassus (Karny, 1907)
  2. Platypygius platypygius (Pantel, 1886) - type species (as Epacromia platypygiaPantel)

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References

  1. Uvarov BP (1942) New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67(4): 337, 343 [1941].
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: genus Platypygius Uvarov, 1942 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)