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Genus of cricket-like animals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbitistes is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae.[1]
Barbitistes | |
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Adult of Barbitistes obtusus, male | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Family: | Tettigoniidae |
Subfamily: | Phaneropterinae |
Tribe: | Barbitistini |
Genus: | Barbitistes Charpentier, 1825 |
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.
Species of this genus are present in much of Europe (but not the British Isles or Scandinavia) and in Asia Minor.[2]
This genus contains the following species:[1][3]
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