''Zeuneriana'' 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 The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

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 ...

and now placed in the genus group ''Metrioptera'' F. E. Zeuner: after whom it was named by W. Ramme in 1951. The recorded distribution of species is: mainland (especially southern and eastern) Europe, from Spain and France (especially the

Pyrenees The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum elevation of at the peak of Aneto. ...

) through to the Balkans and Romania.

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Zeuneriana'' Ramme, 1951 (retrieved 9 May 2023)
/ref> lists: # '' Zeuneriana abbreviata'' (Serville, 1838) # '' Zeuneriana amplipennis'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) # '' Zeuneriana burriana'' (Uvarov, 1935) # '' Zeuneriana marmorata'' (Fieber, 1853) - type species (as ''

Platycleis ''Platycleis'' is a genus of bush crickets described by Fieber in 1853, belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae. The species of this genus are present in Europe, North Africa and temperate Asia. Biology Studies conducted in 2010 at the Univer ...

marmorata'' Fieber by subsequent designationHarz K (1969) ''Ser. Entomol.'' 5: 1-749.)

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* * {{taxonbar, from= Q10724561 Ensifera genera Orthoptera of Europe Tettigoniidae