Corsteropleurus

Corsteropleurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Bradyporinae
Tribe: Ephippigerini
Genus: Corsteropleurus
Barat, 2012
Species:
C. chopardi
Binomial name
Corsteropleurus chopardi
(Ebner, 1938)
Synonyms
  • Steropleurus elegans Chopard, 1924
  • Steropleurus chopardi Ebner, 1938

Corsteropleurus is a monotypic genus of bush crickets, erected by J. Barat in 2012, as part of a revision of the tribe Ephippigerini.

Species

To date (2026), this genus contains the single species Corsteropleurus chopardi (Ebner, 1938), from Corsica and known as the Corsican Saddle Bush-cricket (L'Ephippigère corse). The original type specimen was deposited in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris by Lucien Chopard as Steropleurus elegans Chopard, 1924, but placing a genus has proved problematical; another specimen was subsequently named after him as S. chopardi, with other authorities placing this insect in genus Uromenus before Barat's (2012) review.

References

  1. ↑ Barat J (2012) Revisión preliminar de los géneros de Ephippigerini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Bradyporinae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 50: 1–71. Available here
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: species Corsteropleurus chopardi (Ebner, 1938) (retrieved 15 July 2026)
  3. ↑ Ebner R (1938) Tettigoniidae: subfam. Ephippigerinae, Pycnogastrinae, Bradyporinae, Deracanthinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 1, pp. 70 pp.

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