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Barbitistes

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Barbitistes
Adult of Barbitistes obtusus, male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
Tribe: Barbitistini
Genus: Barbitistes
Charpentier, 1825

Barbitistes is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae.[1]

Description

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In the genus Barbitistes the anterior dorsal surface of the vertex (fastigium) is usually conical and blunt. The length of the antenna is approximately 1.5 - 3 fold to body length. The males have long and often tortuous appendages on the rear-most segments ("cerci"). The Barbitistes species are often brightly colored.

Distribution

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Species of this genus are present in much of Europe (but not the British Isles or Scandinavia) and in Asia Minor.[2]

Species

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This genus contains the following species:[1][3]

  1. Barbitistes alpinus Fruhstorfer, 1920
  2. Barbitistes constrictus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
  3. Barbitistes fischeri (Yersin, 1854) (synonym B. berenguieri Fagniez, 1935)
  4. Barbitistes kaltenbachi Harz, 1965
  5. Barbitistes obtusus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1881
  6. Barbitistes ocskayi (Charpentier, 1850)
  7. Barbitistes serricauda (Fabricius, 1798) - type species
  8. Barbitistes vicetinus Galvagni & Fontana, 1993
  9. Barbitistes yersini Brunner, 1878

References

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