''Bucephaloptera'' is a genus of
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
bush crickets in the 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 ...
, erected by R. Ebner in 1923.
[Ebner R (1923) Revision der Gattung Psorodonotus (Orthoptera, Phasgonuridae). ''Konowia, Zeitschrift für Systematische Insektenkunde'' 2: 249–256.] Species can be found in South-eastern Europe through to Iraq and Jordan in the
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Bucephaloptera'' Ebner, 1923 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 May 2023)]
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# '' Bucephaloptera bolivari'' Karabag, 1950
# '' Bucephaloptera bucephala'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) - type species (as ''Thamnotrizon bucephalus'' Brunner von Wattenwyl)
# '' Bucephaloptera convergens'' Karabag, 1950
# '' Bucephaloptera cypria'' Ramme, 1933
# '' Bucephaloptera ebneri'' Uvarov, 1927
# '' Bucephaloptera robusta'' Karabag, 1956
References
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Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Tettigoniinae