''Bicolorana'' is a genus of
bush crickets in the subfamily
Tettigoniinae
The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve tribes.
Distribution
The greatest diversity is in the Palaearctic region and many of the familiar European species of bush crick ...
and tribe
Platycleidini
The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve tribes.
Distribution
The greatest diversity is in the Palaearctic region and many of the familiar European species of bush cricke ...
. Species can be found in many parts of mainland Europe (but not the British Isles, Iberia or most of Scandinavia), through central Asia to the Korean peninsula.
Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following:
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Bicolorana bicolor''
Philippi, 1830 - type species (as ''Locusta bicolor'' Philippi = ''Bicolorana bicolor bicolor'')
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Bicolorana burri''
Uvarov, 1921
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Bicolorana kraussi''
(Padewieth, 1900), the Croatian Meadow Bush-cricket (synonym ''B. kuntzeni''
Ramme, 1931Orthoptera Species File: species Bicolorana kraussi (Padewieth, 1900)
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Moved species
Some sources may list species names that are now placed in the genus '' Roeseliana'':
*"''Bicolorana ambitiosa''"
*''B. bispina''
*''B. fedtschenkoi''
*''B. pylnovi''
*''B. roeselii'' (Roesel's bush cricket
Roesel's bush-cricket, ''Roeseliana roeselii'' (synonym ''Metrioptera roeselii'') is a European Tettigoniidae, bush-cricket, named after August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, a German entomologist.
Morphology
Adult insects
Adult Roesel's bush-cric ...
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Both these and other genera are very similar, they are now placed in genus group ''Metrioptera''.
Gallery
File:Kelsterbach fg36.jpg
File:Kelsterbach fg37.jpg
File:Metrioptera bicolor (2388981528).jpg
File:Metrioptera bicolor 0018.jpg
File:Metrioptera bicolor forma diluta m 10941.jpg
File:Metrioptera bicolor forma diluta m 10947.jpg
References
External links
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Orthoptera genera
Tettigoniidae