Mecopoda

Mecopoda
Unidentified Mecopoda species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Superfamily:	Tettigonioidea
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Mecopodinae
Genus:	Mecopoda Serville, 1831

Mecopoda is the type genus of bush crickets of the subfamily Mecopodinae. Species can be found in India, China, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Malaysia and Melanesia.

Species

The genus was revised in 2021; the Orthoptera Species File now lists:

• species group Mecopoda elongata Linnaeus, 1758 - containing type species "M. maculata" Serville, which is a synonym of M. javana javana
• Other species:

1. Mecopoda ampla Gorochov, 2020
2. Mecopoda angusta Gorochov, 2020 (2 subspecies)
3. Mecopoda dilatata Redtenbacher, 1892 (2 subspecies)
4. Mecopoda divergens Redtenbacher, 1892
5. Mecopoda kerinci Gorochov, 2020
6. Mecopoda prominens Gorochov, 2020
7. Mecopoda shveri Gorochov, 2020
8. Mecopoda tenebrosa (Walker, 1869)
9. Mecopoda sirambeica Griffini, 1908

Gallery

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  Mecopoda elongata
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  Mecopoda nipponensis

References

External links

• Data related to Mecopoda at Wikispecies
• Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 10 June 2018.