Ensifera is a suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies including: true crickets, camel crickets, bush crickets or katydids, grigs, weta and Cooloola monsters. This and the suborder Caelifera make up the order Orthoptera. Ensifera is believed to be a more ancient group than Caelifera, with its origins in the Carboniferous period, the split having occurred at the end of the Permian period. Unlike the Caelifera, the Ensifera contain numerous members that are partially carnivorous, feeding on other insects, as well as plants.
The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve tribes.
Metrioptera is a genus of insects in the tribe Platycleidini and subfamily Tettigoniinae, include the bog and meadow bush crickets. They are found in Eurasia.
Platycleis is a genus of bush crickets described by Fieber in 1853, belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae. The species of this genus are present in Europe, North Africa and temperate Asia.
Frederick Everard Zeuner was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who specialized on the Pleistocene epoch. He was a contemporary of Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London. Zeuner proposed a detailed scheme of correlation and dating of European climatic and prehistoric cultural events on the basis of Milankovitch cycles. He also worked on Orthopteran insects, with the bush cricket genus Zeuneriana named after him. He has been considered as a pioneer of environmental archaeology.
Platycleis albopunctata is a species of European bush cricket in the tribe Platycleidini.
Gryllidea is an infraorder that includes crickets and similar insects in the order Orthoptera. There are two superfamilies, and more than 6,000 described species in Gryllidea.
Bicolorana is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and tribe Platycleidini. Species can be found in many parts of mainland Europe, through central Asia to the Korean peninsula.
The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the mole crickets and the ant crickets. The type genus is Gryllotalpa.
Rammea is an extinct genus in the Tettigoniidae, containing a single specie, Rammea laciceps. The type locality is Böttingen in Germany. It is the only genus and specie in the subfamily Rammeinae.
Roeseliana is a genus of bush cricket or katydid in the subfamily Tettigoniinae. Species in this genus were placed at various times in the genera Metrioptera and Bicolorana, until Roeseliana was restored in 2011, with these and other similar genera placed in genus group Metrioptera.
Tessellana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis, erected by Zeuner in 1941. Species can be found throughout mainland Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Montana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by F.E. Zeuner in 1941. The type species, M. montana has been called the "Steppe Bush-Cricket". Some authorities 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 through to Siberia.
Parnassiana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis, erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941. Species have been called "Greek bush-crickets" and members of this genus have been recorded mostly from that country.
Incertana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941. Species have been recorded from: North Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East and the Himalayas. Placed in genus group Platycleis, literature on the type species and others often refers to that genus.
Broughtonia is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini. It was first erected as the subgenus Metrioptera (Broughtonia) by K. Harz in 1969 and subsequently elevated to genus level in 2011. Species have been recorded from eastern Europe, with most records from the Balkans through to Romania and Bulgaria.
Vichetia is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini. It was first erected as the subgenus Metrioptera (Vichetia) by K. Harz in 1969 and subsequently elevated to genus level in 2011: belonging to neither the Metrioptera nor the Platycleis genus groups.
Modestana is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by M. Beier in 1955. Species can be found in South-eastern Europe, with most records from Italy, the Balkans and Greece.
Zeuneriana is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and now placed in the genus group Metrioptera F. E. Zeuner: after whom it was named by W. Ramme in 1951. The recorded distribution of species is: mainland Europe, from Spain and France through to the Balkans and Romania.
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