''Modestana'' 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.
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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 M. Beier in 1955. Species can be found in South-eastern Europe, with most records from Italy, the Balkans and Greece.
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Modestana'' Beier, 1955 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 May 2023)]
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# ''Modestana ebneri
''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.
Species
The ''Orthoptera Spec ...
'' (Ramme, 1926)
# '' Modestana modesta'' (Fieber, 1853) - type species (as ''Platycleis
''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.
Biology
Studies conducted in 2010 at the Univer ...
modestus'' Fieber)
Note: ''Modestana kraussi'' (Padewieth, 1900), the Croatian Meadow Bush-cricket, should now be placed in '' Bicolorana''.Orthoptera Species File: species Bicolorana kraussi (Padewieth, 1900)
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References
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Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Tettigoniinae