Micropodisma

Micropodisma
Micropodisma salamandra: male & female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Melanoplinae
Tribe: Podismini
Genus: Micropodisma
Dovnar-Zapolskij, 1932

Micropodisma is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Podismini and subtribe Podismina, erected by D.P. Dovnar-Zapolskij in 1932. Species have a (possibly incomplete) recorded distribution from the Balkans, southern Russia to Kazakhstan.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists:

  1. Micropodisma koenigi (Burr, 1913) - type species (as Podisma koenigi Burr)
  2. Micropodisma malkovskyi Childebaev & Kolov, 2017
  3. Micropodisma salamandra (Fischer, 1853)
  4. Micropodisma svanetica Dovnar-Zapolskij, 1932

References

  1. ↑ Dovnar-Zapolskij DP (1932) Zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Podismini (Orthoptera, Acridodea) (Vorläufige Mitteilung). Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad] 1(3-4): 262, 265 [in Russian with German summary].
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: genus Micropodisma Dovnar-Zapolskij, 1932 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 3 June 2023)