''Incertana'' is a genus of

bush cricket Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifer ...

s 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

F. E. Zeuner Frederick Everard Zeuner, FZS (8 March 1905 – 5 November 1963) was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who was a contemporary of Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London. Zeuner proposed a d ...

in 1941. Species have been recorded (probably an incomplete distribution) from: North Africa, southern Europe (the

Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...

, Sicily, the Balkans through to Turkey), the Middle East and the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over ...

. Placed in genus group ''Platycleis'', literature on the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

and others often refers to that genus.

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Incertana'' Zeuner, 1941 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022)
/ref> lists the following: # '' Incertana arabica'' (Popov, 1981) # '' Incertana buxtoni'' (Uvarov, 1923) # '' Incertana capitata'' (Uvarov, 1917) # '' Incertana concinna'' (Walker, 1869) # '' Incertana decorata'' (Fieber, 1853) # ''

Incertana drepanensis ''Incertana'' is a genus of Tettigoniidae, bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by F. E. Zeuner in 1941. Species have been recorded (probably an incomplete distribution) from: North Africa, southern Europe (the Iberian Peninsula, S ...

'' (Massa, Fontana & Buzzetti, 2006) # '' Incertana himalayana'' (Ramme, 1933) # '' Incertana incerta'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) - type species (as ''Platycleis incerta'' Brunner von Wattenwyl) # '' Incertana kabyla'' (Finot, 1893) # '' Incertana persica'' (Uvarov, 1917) # '' Incertana seniae'' (Finot, 1893) # '' Incertana tripolitana'' (Fontana & Massa, 2009)

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from=Q23047476 Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Asia Orthoptera of Europe Ensifera genera Tettigoniinae