''Platycleis'' is a genus of bush crickets described by Fieber in 1853, belonging to 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 ...

. The species of this genus are present in

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and temperate

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Biology

Studies conducted in 2010 at the

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by Karim Vahed, Darren Parker and James Gilbert found that the tuberous bushcricket ('' Platycleis affinis'') has the largest

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s in proportion to body mass of any animal recorded. They account for 14% of the insect's body mass and are thought to enable a fast re-mating rate. '' Platycleis albopunctata'' is the grey bush cricket and occurs in the British Isles.

Taxonomy

Genus group ''Platycleis''

A number of

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genera are very similar, often including species that were originally placed here by

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and others. They are now in a genus groupOrthoptera Species File: genus group ''Platycleis'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
/ref> and include: # '' Alticolana'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Eumetrioptera'' Miram, 1935 # '' Incertana'' Zeuner, 1941 # ''

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'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Parnassiana'' Zeuner, 1941 # ''Platycleis'' Fieber, 1853 # '' Semenoviana'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Sepiana'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Sporadiana'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Squamiana'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Tessellana'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Yalvaciana'' Çiplak, Heller & Demirsoy, 2002

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022)
/ref> lists the following accepted species: # '' Platycleis affinis'' Fieber, 1853 # '' Platycleis albopunctata'' (Goeze, 1778) # '' Platycleis alexandra'' (Uvarov, 1926) # '' Platycleis buzzettii'' Massa & Fontana, 2011 # '' Platycleis concii'' Galvagni, 1959 # '' Platycleis curvicauda'' Podgornaya, 1988 # '' Platycleis escalerai'' Bolívar, 1899 # '' Platycleis falx'' (Fabricius, 1775) # '' Platycleis fatima'' Uvarov, 1912 # '' Platycleis grisea'' (Fabricius, 1781) - type species (as ''Locusta grisea'' Fabricius) # '' Platycleis iberica'' Zeuner, 1941 # '' Platycleis iljinskii'' Uvarov, 1917 # '' Platycleis intermedia'' (Serville, 1838) # '' Platycleis irinae'' Sergeev & Pokivajlov, 1992 # '' Platycleis kabulica'' Bey-Bienko, 1967 # '' Platycleis kashmira'' (Uvarov, 1930) # '' Platycleis kibris'' Ünal, 2012 # '' Platycleis latitabunda'' Stolyarov, 1968 # '' Platycleis longicauda'' Tarbinsky, 1930 # '' Platycleis meridiana'' Stolyarov, 1969 # '' Platycleis pamirica'' (Zeuner, 1930) # '' Platycleis pathana'' Zeuner, 1941 # †'' Platycleis pongraczi'' Zeuner, 1929 # '' Platycleis ragusai'' Ramme, 1927 # '' Platycleis rahmoiensis'' Jaiswara & Shah, 2022 # '' Platycleis romana'' Ramme, 1927 # '' Platycleis sabinegaali'' Garai, 2011 # '' Platycleis sabulosa'' Azam, 1901 # '' Platycleis sogdiana'' Mistshenko, 1954 # †'' Platycleis speciosa'' (Heer, 1865) # '' Platycleis trivittata'' Bey-Bienko, 1951 # '' Platycleis turanica'' Zeuner, 1930 # '' Platycleis waltheri'' Harz, 1966

Gallery

File:Platycleis.albopunctata.03.jpg, '' Platycleis albopunctata'' male File:Platycleis affinis.jpg, '' Platycleis affinis'' File:Platycleis sabulosa01.jpg, '' Platycleis sabulosa'' File:Tettigoniidae - Platycleis sp..JPG, ''P. sp.'' nymph

References

External links

* {{Authority control Tettigoniinae Tettigoniidae genera