Montana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by F.E. Zeuner in 1941.[1] The type species, M. montana has been called the "Steppe Bush-Cricket".[2] Some authorities[3][4] previously placed this as a subgenus of Platycleis, but it is now considered a separate genus, as part of the genus group Platycleis.[5] Species can be found in the northern Palaearctic realm from mainland western Europe (not the British Isles) through to Siberia.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Subfamily: | Tettigoniinae |
| Tribe: | Platycleidini |
| Genus: | Montana Zeuner, 1941 |
Species
editThe Orthoptera Species File[5] lists the following accepted species:
- Montana armeniaca (Ramme, 1930)
- Montana barretii (Burr, 1912)
- Montana carpetana (Bolívar, 1887)
- Montana daghestanica (Uvarov, 1917)
- Montana decticiformis (Stshelkanovtzev, 1914)
- Montana elegans (Uvarov, 1934)
- Montana eversmanni (Kittary, 1849)
- Montana gaskoi Garai, 2011
- Montana heinrichi (Ramme, 1929)
- Montana helleri (Çiplak & Taylan, 2006)
- Montana kure (Ünal, 2006)
- Montana macedonica (Berland & Chopard, 1922)
- Montana medvedevi (Miram, 1927)
- Montana montana (Kollar, 1833) = type species (as Locusta montana Kollar)
- Montana richteri (Bey-Bienko, 1958)
- Montana schereri (Werner, 1901)
- Montana striata (Thunberg, 1815)
- Montana stricta (Zeller, 1849)
- Montana taurica (Bolívar, 1899)
- Montana tianshanica (Uvarov, 1933)
- Montana tomini (Pylnov, 1916)
- Montana uvarovi Karabag, 1950
- Montana zanjanica Garai, 2011
References
edit- ^ 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: 15.
- ^ iNaturalist: Steppe Bush-Cricket (Montana montana)
- ^ Harz (1969) Ser. Entomol. 5: 250-254.
- ^ Ragge D (1990) Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 59(1): 9.
- ^ a b c Orthoptera Species File: genus Montana Zeuner, 1941 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 November 2022)
External links
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Data related to Montana at Wikispecies
Media related to Montana (bush cricket) at Wikimedia Commons
