Microcentrum[1] is a genus of phaneropterid bushcrickets, sometimes known as "angle-wing katydids"[citation needed] and found in the Americas.[2]

Microcentrum
Microcentrum rhombifolium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
Tribe: Microcentrini
Genus: Microcentrum
Scudder, 1862
Synonyms
  • Acrephyllum Piza, 1973
  • Carnavalia Koçak & Kemal, 2008
  • Linkia Piza, 1971
  • Malkinia Piza, 1979
  • Microcentrus Riley, 1874
Lesser angle-wing katydid
Microcentrum retinerve, Jamaica
Eggs of Microcentrum.

Species

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

References

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  1. ^ Scudder SH (1862) Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 7(3): 446.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 18 March 2020)
  3. ^ Carnegie Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Volume 9 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1915, pg.332.
  4. ^ New York Entomological Society, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Volume 14 p. 157.
  5. ^ Piza Jr. Uma nova Parableta de Piracicaba (Phaneropteridae). Revista de Agricultura (Piracicaba). 1968. 43(3-4):103-104
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