Metioche (cricket)

Metioche is a genus of sword-tail crickets[2] in the tribe Trigonidiini. Species have been found in tropical South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Metioche
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Trigonidiidae
Tribe: Trigonidiini
Genus: Metioche
Stål, 1877[1]
Species

> 40 species in 2 subgenera; see text

Synonyms
  • Piestoxiphus Saussure, 1878
  • Litogryllus Hebard, 1926

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

Subgenus Metioche Stål, 1877
  1. Metioche apicalis (Chopard, 1930)
  2. Metioche baroalbae Otte & Alexander, 1983
  3. Metioche bicolor (Stål, 1861)
  4. Metioche bimaculata Chopard, 1952
  5. Metioche bolivari Chopard, 1968
  6. Metioche boliviana (Chopard, 1956)
  7. Metioche chamadara (Sugimoto, 2001)
  8. Metioche comorana Chopard, 1956
  9. Metioche fascithorax Chopard, 1929
  10. Metioche flavipes (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)
  11. Metioche fusca (Chopard, 1917)
  12. Metioche fuscicornis (Stål, 1861)
  13. Metioche fusconatata Chopard, 1934
  14. Metioche gigas (Bolívar, 1900)
  15. Metioche haanii (Saussure, 1878)
  16. Metioche japonica (Ichikawa, 2001)
  17. Metioche kotoshoensis (Shiraki, 1930)
  18. Metioche kuthyi Chopard, 1927
  19. Metioche lateralis Chopard, 1927
  20. Metioche lesnei Chopard, 1935
  21. Metioche luteola (Butler, 1876)
  22. Metioche machadoi Chopard, 1962
  23. Metioche maorica (Walker, 1869)
  24. Metioche massaica (Sjöstedt, 1910)
  25. Metioche minuscula Chopard, 1962
  26. Metioche monteithi Otte & Alexander, 1983
  27. Metioche nigra Chopard, 1927
  28. Metioche nigripes Chopard, 1926
  29. Metioche ocularis (Saussure, 1899)
  30. Metioche ornatipes Chopard, 1927
  31. Metioche pallidicornis (Stål, 1861)
  32. Metioche pallidinervis Chopard, 1928
  33. Metioche pallipes (Stål, 1861)
  34. Metioche perpusilla (Bolívar, 1912)
  35. Metioche peruviana Chopard, 1956
  36. Metioche quadrimaculata Chopard, 1952
  37. Metioche schoutedeni Chopard, 1934
  38. Metioche sexmaculata Chopard, 1952
  39. Metioche substriata Chopard, 1962
  40. Metioche tacita (Saussure, 1878)
  41. Metioche vittaticollis (Stål, 1861) - type species - (M. v. vittaticollis from Manila, Philippines).
subgenus Superstes Hugel, 2012
  1. Metioche payendeei Hugel, 2012
  2. Metioche superba Hugel, 2012

References
  1. Stål C (1877) Ofv. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. 34(10): 48.
  2. Orthoptera Species File: Metioche
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