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

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

Species

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

References

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  1. Scudder SH (1862) Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 7(3): 446.
  2. 1 2 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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