Pachytrachis is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1940.[1] Species have been recorded from Italy, through South-eastern Europe to Turkey.[2]

Pachytrachis
Pachytrachis striolatus male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Pachytrachis
Uvarov, 1940
Synonyms

Pachytrachelus Fieber, 1853

Species edit

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists the following accepted species:

  1. Pachytrachis bosniacus Messina, 1979
  2. Pachytrachis frater (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)
  3. Pachytrachis gracilis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861)
  4. Pachytrachis striolatus (Fieber, 1853) - type species (replaced name inherited from synonym Thamnotrizon appendiculatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861)
  5. Pachytrachis tumidus Ingrisch & Pavićević, 2010
 
Pachytrachis gracilis female

References edit

  1. ^ Uvarov BP (1940) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 112–117.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Pachytrachis Uvarov, 1940 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 May 2023)

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