Vichetia
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| Vichetia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Subfamily: | Tettigoniinae |
| Tribe: | Platycleidini |
| Genus: | Vichetia Harz, 1969 |
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Vichetia is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini. It was first erected as the subgenus Metrioptera (Vichetia) by K. Harz in 1969[1] and subsequently elevated to genus level in 2011: belonging to neither the Metrioptera nor the Platycleis genus groups.[2]
Species have been recorded from eastern Europe, with most records from the Balkans through to Romania and Bulgaria.[3]
