title: Barbitistes
text: # Barbitistes
  
  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.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Species of this genus are present in much of Europe (but not the British Isles or Scandinavia) and in Asia Minor.
  
  ## Species
  
  This genus contains the following species:
  
  * Barbitistes berenguieri Fagniez, 1935
  * Barbitistes brunneri Pancic, 1883
  * Barbitistes constrictus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
  * Barbitistes fischeri (Yersin, 1854)
  * Barbitistes kaltenbachi Harz, 1965
  * Barbitistes obtusus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1881
  * Barbitistes ocskayi (Charpentier, 1850)
  * Barbitistes serricauda (Fabricius, 1798)
  * Barbitistes vicetinus Galvagni & Fontana, 1993
  * Barbitistes yersini Brunner, 1878
  