''Sciobia'' is a genus of

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 ...

in the family

Gryllidae The family Gryllidae contains the subfamilies and genera which entomologists now term true crickets. Having long, whip-like antennae, they belong to the Orthopteran suborder Ensifera, which has been greatly reduced in the last 100 years (''e.g ...

and monotypic

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Sciobiini; it was erected by

Hermann Burmeister Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botany, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at ...

in 1838. Species can be found in NW Africa and the

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.Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Sciobia'' Burmeister, 1838 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 13 February 2023)
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Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' includes: ;subgenus ''Sciobia'' Burmeister, 1838 # '' Sciobia algirica'' (Gogorza, 1881) # '' Sciobia alluaudi'' (Bolívar, 1925) # '' Sciobia appunctata'' (Bolívar, 1912) # '' Sciobia azruensis'' (Bolívar, 1925) # '' Sciobia barbara'' (Saussure, 1877) # '' Sciobia batnensis'' (Finot, 1893) # '' Sciobia bolivari'' (Chopard, 1937) # '' Sciobia boscai'' Bolívar, 1925 # '' Sciobia bouvieri'' Bolívar, 1925 # '' Sciobia cephalotes'' (Bolívar, 1925) # '' Sciobia chevreuxi'' Bolívar, 1925 # '' Sciobia chopardi'' (Bolívar, 1925) # '' Sciobia cinerea'' (Chopard, 1943) # '' Sciobia escalerai'' Bolívar, 1925 # '' Sciobia finoti'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) # '' Sciobia gogorzai'' (Bolívar, 1912) # '' Sciobia longicauda'' Gaillat-Airoldi, 1939 # '' Sciobia luctuosa'' (Gogorza, 1881) # '' Sciobia lusitanica'' (Rambur, 1838) type species (as ''Platyblemmus lusitanicus'' Rambur, by subsequent designation)Kirby WF (1906) ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 2:i-viii, 1-562. # '' Sciobia maria'' Gorochov, 1985 # '' Sciobia mauretanicus'' (Saussure, 1898) # '' Sciobia mazarredoi'' (Bolívar, 1881) # '' Sciobia melillensis'' Bolívar, 1912 # '' Sciobia micropsycha'' (Bolívar, 1912) # '' Sciobia mitrata'' (Saussure, 1898) # '' Sciobia polita'' Bolívar, 1925 # '' Sciobia praticola'' (Bolívar, 1884) # '' Sciobia riffensis'' (Morales-Agacino, 1956) # '' Sciobia tatiana'' Gorochov, 1985 # '' Sciobia tristis'' (Bolívar, 1925) # '' Sciobia umbraculata'' (Linnaeus, 1758) # '' Sciobia uvarovi'' (Bolívar, 1925) # '' Sciobia viettei'' Chopard, 1958 ;subgenus ''Thliptoblemmus'' Saussure, 1898 # '' Sciobia caliendra'' (Fischer, 1853) # '' Sciobia foreli'' (Saussure, 1898) # '' Sciobia hybrida'' (Saussure, 1898) # '' Sciobia natalia'' Gorochov, 1985

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from=Q10663905 Ensifera genera crickets Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Europe