''Mogoplistes'' is a genus of African and European

crickets Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets and more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms,Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 886 ...

which is typical of the family

Mogoplistidae Mogoplistidae is a Family (biology), family of scaly crickets and allies within the superfamily Grylloidea. Considered to be monophyletic, a sister taxon to the Gryllidae crickets. This family consists of more than 370 species worldwide; 20 speci ...

and

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Mogoplistini Mogoplistidae is a family of scaly crickets and allies within the superfamily Grylloidea. Considered to be monophyletic, a sister taxon to the Gryllidae crickets. This family consists of more than 370 species worldwide; 20 species in 4 genera occ ...

, erected by

Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville (; his name, before the French Revolution, Revolution, included a Nobiliary particle, particle: Audinet de Serville) was a French entomologist, born on 11 November 1775 in Paris. He died on 27 March 1858 in La Fert ...

in 1838. This genus is distributed around the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...

in mainland Europe and North Africa.Orthoptera Species File
Genus ''Mogoplistes'' Serville, 1838 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 20 April 2023) In 1984, the scaly cricket was moved from here to the new genus ''

Pseudomogoplistes ''Pseudomogoplistes'' is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae, erected by AV Gorochov in 1984.Gorochov AV (1984) ''Zool. Zhur.'' 63(11): 1650. The recorded distribution of species is Europe and North Africa. Species The ''Orthoptera ...

''.Gorochov AV (1984) ''Zool. Zhur.'' 63(11): 1650.

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists: # '' Mogoplistes argentatus'' Bolívar, 1881 # '' Mogoplistes brunneus'' Serville, 1838 - type species # '' Mogoplistes kinzelbachi'' Harz, 1976 # '' Mogoplistes tridentatus'' Saussure, 1877

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from=Q10587468 Ensifera genera Mogoplistidae Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Europe