Melanoplini
| Melanoplini | |
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| Aeoloplides chenopodii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Melanoplinae |
| Tribe: | Melanoplini Scudder, 1897 |
Melanoplini is a tribe of spur-throated grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are about 19 genera and more than 200 described species in Melanoplini, all in North America.[1][2] Their biogeography shows that many species in the tribe have descendants from the Eocene epoch and Miocene epoch. [3]
Phoetaliotes nebrascensis
Genera[]
These 19 genera belong to the tribe Melanoplini:[1]
- Aeoloplides Caudell, 1916 i c g b
- Agroecotettix Bruner, 1908 i c g b
- Aptenopedes Scudder, 1878 i c g b
- Scudder, 1897 c g
- Chloroplus Hebard, 1918 i c g b
- Eotettix Scudder, 1897 i c g b
- Otte, 2014 c g
- Floritettix Otte, 2014 c g
- Hesperotettix Scudder, 1876 i c g b
- Hypochlora Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 i c g b
- Melanoplus Stål, 1873 i c g b
- Roberts, 1939 c g
- Scudder, 1897 c g b
- Oedaleonotus Scudder, 1897 i c g b
- Paroxya Scudder, 1877 i c g b
- Phaedrotettix Scudder, 1897 i c g b
- Scudder, 1897 c g b
- Phoetaliotes Scudder, 1897 i c g b
- Scudder, 1897 i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[2]
References[]
- ^ a b Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2018). "Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2018-12-29.
- ^ a b "Melanoplini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
- ^ Chintauan-Marquier, Ioana (2011). "Evolutionary history and taxonomy of a short-horned grasshopper subfamily: The melanoplinae (orthoptera: Acrididae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (1): 22–32. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.003. PMID 20643218. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-12-29.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-12-29.
- ^ "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-12-29.
Further reading[]
- Bland, Roger (2003). The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets. Michigan State University Extension. ISBN 978-1565250178.
- Capinera, J.L; Scott, R.D.; Walker, T.J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8.
- Otte, Daniel (1997). Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia (eds.). Orthoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol. 4: Non–Holometabolous Orders. Entomological Information Services. pp. 581–634. ISBN 1-889002-04-6.
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