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Genus of cricket-like animals

Sorapagus
Sorapagus catalaunicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Bradyporinae
Tribe: Ephippigerini
Genus: Sorapagus
Barat, 2012
Synonyms
  • Steropleurus ceretanus Kruseman & Jeekel, 1964
  • Ephippigera catalaunica Bolívar, I. 1907
  • Uromenus (Steropleurus) catalaunicus Bolívar, I. 1907

Sorapagus is a monotypic genus of bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, erected by J. Barat in 2012. The single species had long been placed in the genus Steropleurus.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File only includes Sorapagus catalaunicus (Bolívar, 1898) in this genus. It is endemic to the Pyrénées mountain range and sometimes called the Catalan saddle bush-cricket.

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: 47.
  2. Burr (1910) Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe 122, 124
  3. Orthoptera Species File: genus Sorapagus Barat, 2012 (retrieved 8 January 2023)

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Taxon identifiers
Sorapagus
Sorapagus catalaunicus
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