Barbitistes
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderOrthoptera
- FamilyTettigoniidae
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Barbitistes is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae.
==Description== In the genus Barbitistes the anterior dorsal surface of the vertex (fastigium) is usually conical and blunt. The length of the antenna is approximately 1.5 - 3 fold to body length. The males have long and often tortuous appendages on the rear-most segments ("cerci"). The Barbitistes species are often brightly colored.