Metaplastes
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Metaplastes is a genus of katydids crickets in family Tettigoniidae
subfamily Phaneropterinae
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It contains the following species:
Tettigoniidae
The family Tettigoniidae, known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets, contains more than 6,400 species. It is part of the suborder Ensifera and the only family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are...
subfamily Phaneropterinae
Phaneropterinae
Phaneropterinae is a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids. Belonging to the family Tettigoniidae, they have nearly 2060 species in 85 genera throughout the world...
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It contains the following species:
- Metaplastes ippolitoi La Greca, 1948
- Metaplastes oertzeni (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891)
- Metaplastes ornatus (Ramme, 1931)
- Metaplastes pulchripennisMetaplastes pulchripennisMetaplastes pulchripennis is a species of 'katydids crickets' belonging to the family Tettigoniidae subfamily Phaneropterinae.This cricket is present in mainland of Italy, in Sardinia, in Corsica and in Spain. It can commonly be encountered from June through July, especially on Cistus species...
(A. Costa, 1863)