'' Steropleurus'' is a genus of European bush crickets in the

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Ephippigerini, first described by

Ignacio Bolívar Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (; 9 November 1850 – 19 November 1944) was a Spanish natural history, naturalist and entomologist, and one of the founding fathers of Spanish entomology. He helped found the ''Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natu ...

in 1878.Bolívar I (1878) ''Analecta Orthopterologica. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural'' 7: 449 (available a
Biblioteca digital
. as '' Ephippiger (Steropleurus)''. To date (2022), species have only been recorded from the

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Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Steropleurus'' Bolívar, 1878 (retrieved 8 January 2023)
/ref> lists: # '' Steropleurus andalusius'' (Rambur, 1838) (2 subspecies) # '' Steropleurus brunnerii'' (Bolívar, 1877) - type species (as ''Ephippiger brunnerii'' Bolívar) # '' Steropleurus castellanus'' (Bolívar, 1878) # '' Steropleurus flavovittatus'' (Bolívar, 1878) # '' Steropleurus obsoletus'' (Bolívar, 1898) # '' Steropleurus pseudolus'' (Bolívar, 1878) # '' Steropleurus recticarinatus'' (Llorente del Moral, 1980) Note: ''Steropleurus catalaunicus'', the Catalan Saddle Bush-cricket, is now '' Sorapagus catalaunicus'' (Bolívar, 1898)

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* * {{taxonbar, from=Q10679503 Orthoptera of Europe Ensifera genera Bradyporinae Taxa named by Ignacio Bolívar