Poecilimon

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Poecilimon
Poecilimon ornatus, male

Poecilimon ornatus , male

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
Subordination : Long- probe horror (Ensifera)
Family : Sickle horror (Phaneropteridae)
Genre : Poecilimon
Scientific name
Poecilimon
Fisherman , 1853
Poecilimon ornatus , female

Poecilimon is agenus of locusts from the family of sickle-fries (Phaneropteridae).

features

With Poecilimon species, the color ranges from almost monochrome green to brightly colored. Green to vividly colored specimens can also occur within a species. Often there is a stripe behind the eyes. This is brightly colored, dorsally dark and can reach over the pronotum . The fastigium is broader to narrower than the scapus . The pronotum is often shiny, smooth, and often rounded dorsally. If edges can be seen on the sides of the pronotum, these are broadly rounded. Usually the sulcus is in front of the middle. In some species, however, it can also be in or behind the middle. The animals are micropter . Females can also be squamipter , the elytra can be almost completely reduced. Cu 2 is hidden in the males. There are some species in which the pronotum is strongly bent up and cut out at the rear edge; Cu 2 can be seen in these. In the males the cerci are very different, on the other hand they are always more or less conical in the females. The ovipositor is always straight ventrally. At its tip it is slightly curved upwards and serrated. The antennae are monochrome or ringed and about three times as long as the body.

Occurrence

The range of the genus Poecilimon includes Southeast Europe up to the southern Alps, southern Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the south of the European part of the former USSR, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, the Caucasus, Transcaspia, Persia and reaches in Central Asia up to the Altai.

Systematics

The genus includes the following 134 species:

not assigned to any species group:

supporting documents

literature

  • Kurt Harz: The orthopterists of Europe . Volume 1, Dr. W. Junk NV, The Hague 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poecilimon at Orthoptera Species File Online , accessed August 23, 2013

Web links

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