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Sickle-bearing Bushcrickets
Phaneroptera
Phaneroptera is an Old World genus of bush crickets in the family Tettigoniidae and is the type genus of the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It was described by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1831, and the species are recorded from Europe, Africa and Asia.
42 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Mediterranean Katydid
speciesPhaneroptera nana

Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
speciesPhaneroptera falcata

Sickle-bearing Leaf Katydid
speciesPhaneroptera sparsa

Black-footed Bush-cricket
speciesPhaneroptera nigroantennata

Phaneroptera brevis
speciesPhaneroptera brevis

Phaneroptera quinquesignata
speciesPhaneroptera quinquesignata

Philippine katydid
speciesPhaneroptera furcifera

Phaneroptera gracilis
speciesPhaneroptera gracilis

Phaneroptera laticerca
speciesPhaneroptera laticerca

Phaneroptera trigonia
speciesPhaneroptera trigonia

Phaneroptera spinosa
speciesPhaneroptera spinosa

Phaneroptera albida
speciesPhaneroptera albida

Phaneroptera parva
speciesPhaneroptera parva

Phaneroptera okinawensis
speciesPhaneroptera okinawensis

Phaneroptera magna
speciesPhaneroptera magna

Phaneroptera maculosa
speciesPhaneroptera maculosa
Phaneroptera nigropunctata
speciesPhaneroptera nigropunctata
Phaneroptera abdita
speciesPhaneroptera abdita
Phaneroptera phantasma
speciesPhaneroptera phantasma
Phaneroptera acaciae
speciesPhaneroptera acaciae
Phaneroptera albivenis
speciesPhaneroptera albivenis
Phaneroptera brevicauda
speciesPhaneroptera brevicauda
Phaneroptera celebica
speciesPhaneroptera celebica
Phaneroptera curvata
speciesPhaneroptera curvata
Phaneroptera darevskii
speciesPhaneroptera darevskii
Phaneroptera dentata
speciesPhaneroptera dentata
Phaneroptera exigua
speciesPhaneroptera exigua
Phaneroptera guineana
speciesPhaneroptera guineana
Phaneroptera hordeifolia
speciesPhaneroptera hordeifolia
Phaneroptera jordanica
speciesPhaneroptera jordanica
Phaneroptera myllocerca
speciesPhaneroptera myllocerca
Phaneroptera rentzi
speciesPhaneroptera rentzi
Phaneroptera rintjana
speciesPhaneroptera rintjana
Phaneroptera spinifera
speciesPhaneroptera spinifera
Phaneroptera longispina
speciesPhaneroptera longispina
Phaneroptera fragilis
speciesPhaneroptera fragilis
Phaneroptera cretacea
speciesPhaneroptera cretacea
Phaneroptera cleomis
speciesPhaneroptera cleomis
Phaneroptera minima
speciesPhaneroptera minima
Phaneroptera bivittata
speciesPhaneroptera bivittata
Phaneroptera longicauda
speciesPhaneroptera longicauda

Phaneroptera neglecta
speciesPhaneroptera neglecta
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48130.