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''Pseudochorthippus''Defaut (2018) ''Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques'' 23: 81 is a genus of
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Gomphocerini Gomphocerini is a tribe of grasshoppers of the family Acrididae. Genera The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following: # '' Aeropedellus'' Hebard, 1935 # '' Bruneria'' McNeill, 1897
.Orthoptera Species File: ''Pseudochorthippus'' Defaut, 2012 (retrieved 27 August 2024)
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Chorthippus ''Chorthippus'' is a large genus of Gomphocerini, gomphocerine grasshoppers with around 230 described species mostly found in the Palaearctic realm. It was erected by Franz Xaver Fieber, Franz Fieber in 1852. The genus has been subdivided in ...
'', but are now placed here in species group ''parallelus'' (Zetterstedt, 1821). Species have been recorded from Western Europe, throughout temperate Asia and North America.


Species

''Pseudochorthippus'' includes the species: # '' Pseudochorthippus geminus'' * Species in ''Pseudochorthippus'' supersp. ''parallelus'' : # '' Pseudochorthippus curtipennis'' : N. America # '' Pseudochorthippus montanus'' : mainland Europe: the 'water-meadow grasshopper' # '' Pseudochorthippus parallelus'' – type species (as ''Gryllus parallelus'' Zetterstedt = ''P. parallelus parallelus''): the European 'meadow grasshopper' # '' Pseudochorthippus tatrae'' : eastern Europe


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* * {{taxonbar, from=Q14191196 Acrididae genera Orthoptera of Europe Gomphocerinae Taxa described in 2012