Sporadiana is a monotypic genus of southern European bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis, erected by erected by Frederick Everard Zeuner in 1941.[2]

Sporadiana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Sporadiana
Zeuner, 1941
Species:
S. sporadarum
Binomial name
Sporadiana sporadarum
(Werner, 1933)
Synonyms[1]
  • Metrioptera brevipes Uvarov, 1934 (holotype)
  • Platycleis sporadarum Werner, 1933 (syntype)

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[3] includes the single species Sporadiana sporadarum (Werner, 1933), which Franz Werner originally placed in the genus Platycleis.[4] This species has been called the “Sporades Bush-cricket” and has been recorded from Greece and Turkey.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Cigliano, M.M., H. Braun, D.C. Eades & D. Otte. Orthoptera Species File: species Sporadiana sporadarum (Werner, 1933). (retrieved 11 August 2024)
  2. ^ Zeuner FE (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 91: 39.
  3. ^ a b "Genus Sporadiana Zeuner, 1941". Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  4. ^ Werner F (1933) Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Studien-und Sammelreise nach den Inseln des Agäischen Meeres II. Orthopteren. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (Abt. 1). 142: 193.
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