Myrmeleotettix

Myrmeleotettix[1] is a genus of grasshopper in the tribe Gomphocerini. Species are recorded from western Europe and throughout temperate Asia.[2]

Myrmeleotettix
M. maculatus.
M. antennatus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Tribe:	Gomphocerini
Genus:	Myrmeleotettix Bolívar, 1914
Type species
Gomphocerus maculatus Thunberg, 1815

Species

As of 2019, the genus consists of the following species:[2]

• Myrmeleotettix angustiseptus Liu, 1982
• Myrmeleotettix antennatus (Fieber, 1853)[3]
• Myrmeleotettix brachypterus Liu, 1982
• Myrmeleotettix ethicus Sirin & Ciplak, 2011[4]
• Myrmeleotettix kunlunensis Huang, 1987
• Myrmeleotettix longipennis Zhang, 1984
• Myrmeleotettix maculatus (Thunberg, 1815)[5]
• Myrmeleotettix pallidus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)[6]
• Myrmeleotettix palpalis (Zubovski, 1900)[7]
• Myrmeleotettix pluridentis Liang, 1987
• Myrmeleotettix zaitzevi Mistshenko, 1968

References

1. Bolívar, I. (1914). "Estudios entomológicos. Segunda parte. I. El grupo de los Euprepocnemes. II. Los Truxalinos del antiguo Mundo". Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Serie Zoológica. 20: 61.
2. "Genus Myrmeleotettix Bolívar, 1914". Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
3. Fieber, Franz Xav. (1853). "Synopsis der europäischen Orthoptera". Lotos: Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften. 3: 101.
4. Sirin, Deniz; Mol, Abbas; Ciplak, Battal (2011). "Myrmeleotettix Bolivar (Orthoptera, Gomphocerinae) in Anatolia on the basis of morphological and behavioural characters: data suggest a new species from southern end of the Anatolian refugium". Zootaxa. 2917: 29–47. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2917.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
5. Thunberg, C. P. (1812) [1815]. "Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta". Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 5: 221.
6. Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1882). Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 134.
7. Zubowsky, N. (1900). "Beitrag zur Kenntniss der sibirischen Acridiodeen". Труды Русскаго Энтомологическаго Общества = Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae. 34: 13–15.

Further reading

• Bei-Bienko, G. Ya.; Mishchenko, L. L. (1964) [Original Russian published 1951]. "Genus Myrmeleotettix I. Bol.". Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. 2. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations. pp. 109–111.