''Mecopoda''
[Serville (1831) ''Ann. Sci. nat.'' 22(86): 154] is the type genus of
bush crickets of the subfamily
Mecopodinae
Mecopodinae are a subfamily of Tettigoniidae, bush crickets found in western South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. In Asia, the distribution includes India, Indochina, Japan, the Philippines, and Malesia to Papua New Guinea and Australasia ...
. Species can be found in India, China, Korea, Japan,
Indochina
Mainland Southeast Asia (historically known as Indochina and the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to th ...
,
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
and
Melanesia
Melanesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.
The region includes the four independent countries of Fiji, Vanu ...
.
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Species
The genus was revised in 2021; the ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Mecopoda'' Serville, 1831 (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 8 November 2022)]
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* species group '' Mecopoda elongata'' Linnaeus, 1758 - containing type species "''M. maculata''" Serville, which is a synonym of ''M. javana javana''
* Other species:
# '' Mecopoda ampla'' Gorochov, 2020
# '' Mecopoda angusta'' Gorochov, 2020 (2 subspecies)
# '' Mecopoda dilatata'' Redtenbacher, 1892 (2 subspecies)
# '' Mecopoda divergens'' Redtenbacher, 1892
# '' Mecopoda kerinci'' Gorochov, 2020
# '' Mecopoda prominens'' Gorochov, 2020
# '' Mecopoda shveri'' Gorochov, 2020
# '' Mecopoda tenebrosa'' (Walker, 1869)
# '' Mecopoda sirambeica'' Griffini, 1908
Gallery
File:Mecopoda elongata01.jpg, '' Mecopoda elongata''
File:Mecopoda nipponensis.jpg, ''Mecopoda nipponensis
''Mecopoda''Serville (1831) ''Ann. Sci. nat.'' 22(86): 154 is the type genus of bush crickets of the subfamily Mecopodinae. Species can be found in India, China, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Malaysia and Melanesia
Melanesia (, ) is a subregion ...
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References
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Mecopodinae
Orthoptera of Asia
Orthoptera genera