''Vichetia'' is a genus of
Palaearctic
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.
Th ...
bush crickets in the tribe
Platycleidini
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 cricke ...
. It was first erected as the subgenus ''
Metrioptera
''Metrioptera'' is a genus of insects in the tribe Platycleidini and subfamily Tettigoniinae, include the ''bog'' and ''meadow bush crickets''. They are found in Eurasia.
Taxonomy Genus group ''Metrioptera''
A number of Palaearctic
The Pale ...
'' (''Vichetia'') by K. Harz in 1969 and subsequently elevated to genus level in 2011: belonging to neither the ''Metrioptera'' nor the
''Platycleis'' genus groups.
[Massa & Fontana (2011) ''Zootaxa'' 2837: 16.]
Species have been recorded from eastern Europe, with most records from the
Balkans
The Balkans ( , ), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throug ...
through to Romania and Bulgaria.
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Vichetia'' Harz, 1969 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 May 2023)]
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# '' Vichetia knipperi'' (Ramme, 1951)
# '' Vichetia oblongicollis'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) - type species (as ''Platycleis oblongicollis'' Brunner von Wattenwyl)
References
External links
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Orthoptera of Europe
Ensifera genera
Tettigoniinae