''Podisma'' is a genus of 'short-horned

grasshopper Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are amongst what are possibly the most ancient living groups of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grassh ...

s' belonging to the family

Acrididae Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedi ...

and the subfamily

Melanoplinae The Melanoplinae are a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. They are distributed across the Holarctic and Neotropical realms. They are one of the two largest subfamilies in the Acrididae. As of 2001 the Melanoplinae contained over 8 ...

Distribution

Grasshopper species in this genus are recorded mainland

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(including Norway, but not the British Isles), the eastern

Palearctic realm 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. The ...

through to temperate, east Asia including Japan.Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 7 June 2021)
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Species

*'' Podisma aberrans'' Ikonnikov, 1911 *'' Podisma amedegnatoae'' Fontana & Pozzebon, 2007 *'' Podisma cantabricae'' Morales-Agacino, 1950 *'' Podisma carpetana'' (Bolívar, 1898) *'' Podisma eitschbergeri'' Harz, 1973 *'' Podisma emiliae'' Ramme, 1926 *'' Podisma goidanichi'' (Baccetti, 1959) *'' Podisma hesperus'' (Hebard, 1936) *'' Podisma kanoi'' Storozhenko, 1994 *'' Podisma lezgina'' Uvarov, 1917 *'' Podisma magdalenae'' Galvagni, 1971 *'' Podisma miramae'' Savenko, 1941 *'' Podisma pedestris'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as ''Gryllus pedestris'' L. = ''P. pedestris pedestris'') *'' Podisma ruffoi'' Baccetti, 1971 *'' Podisma sapporensis'' Shiraki, 1910 *'' Podisma satunini'' Uvarov, 1916 *'' Podisma silvestrii'' Salfi, 1935 *'' Podisma syriaca'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861 *'' Podisma teberdina'' Ramme, 1951 *'' Podisma tyatiensis'' Bugrov & Sergeev, 1997 *'' Podisma uvarovi'' Ramme, 1926

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10635021 Acrididae genera Melanoplinae