- Source: Poecilimon
Poecilimon is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae and tribe Barbitistini. Species can be found in: central and Southeast Europe (including Italy and the Southern Alps, Southern Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria), the south of the European part of the former USSR, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, the Caucasus, Persia and extends in Central Asia to the Altai Mountains.
Description
Because Poecilimon species are often brightly coloured, they may be called "bright bush crickets", although some are mostly green. As with many Orthoptera, colouration can be misleading, with variability within species. Often there is a stripe behind the eyes, dorsally dark and can extend beyond the pronotum. The fastigium is broader to narrower than the scapus. The pronotum is often shiny, smooth, and often rounded dorsally. These insects are often brachypterous and females can be apterous. In the males, the cerci are very different, but are always more or less conical in the females. The ovipositor is always straight and slightly curved upwards and serrated. The antennae are monochrome or ringed and about three times as long as the body.
Species
The Orthoptera Species File now lists more than 140 species:
subgenus Hamatopoecilimon Heller, 2011
Poecilimon deplanatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
Poecilimon hamatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
Poecilimon ikariensis Willemse, 1982
Poecilimon klausgerhardi Fontana, 2004
Poecilimon paros Heller & Reinhold, 1992
Poecilimon unispinosus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
= subgenus Poecilimon Fischer, 1853
=References
External links
Media related to Poecilimon at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Poecilimon at Wikispecies
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jangkrik
- Poecilimon
- Poecilimon ornatus
- Poecilimon thoracicus
- Gymnoscelis poecilimon
- Tettigoniidae
- List of endangered insects
- IUCN Red List endangered species (Animalia)
- IUCN Red List near threatened species (Animalia)
- List of least concern arthropods
- List of least concern insects
