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  subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902
tribe Decticini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
genus Sphagniana Zeuner, 1941

species Sphagniana sphagnorum (Walker, 1869)

• Common name(s):  Bog Katydid
• Images: (11) See all images
  • male (syntype) (previously Synonym Idionotus brevipes)
  • male pronotum and wings (syntype) (previously Synonym Idionotus brevipes)
  • male (lectotype); specimen
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
• Distribution:
  • 
• Ecology:
  • spruce bogs (in northwestern Ontario)
• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (14):
  • Walker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 2:258 >> Decticus sphagnorum  
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:274  
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of north-eastern America 600 >> Idionotus sphagnorum  
  • Hebard. 1930[1931]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 82:401  
  • Uvarov. 1930. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 10 5(28):403 >> Metrioptera (Metrioptera) sphagnorum
  • Hebard. 1939. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 65:177 >> Metrioptera sphagnorum  
  • Zeuner. 1941. Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London 91:43 >> Sphagniana sphagnorum
  • Ramme. 1951. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 27:260 >> Note: Metrioptera Group: Sphagniana >> Sphagniana
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Birchim. 1968. Mem. Pacific Coast Ent. Soc. 3:152 >> Metrioptera
  • Morris, G.K. 1970. Canadian Ent. 102:363-368 >> Metrioptera sphagnorum
  • Morris, G.K. & Pipher. 1972. Canadian Ent. 104:977-985 >> Metrioptera sphagnorum
  • Vickery & Kerr. 1975. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 105:96 >> Metrioptera sphagnorum
  • Morris, G.K., Kerr & Gwynne. 1975. Z. Tierpsychol. 37:502-514 >> Metrioptera sphagnorum
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 188, Plate 42 >> Metrioptera sphagnorum
• Scrutiny:
  • Braun, 2007, genus Sphagniana extremely rarely recognized in current literature
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Eastern Canada, Hudsons Bay, St. Martins Falls
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Sex of type:  male
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym brevipes (Caudell, 1907)
• synonym brevipes (Walker, 1909)
• synonym fletcheri (Caudell, 1907)