Melanoplini

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Melanoplini
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Aeoloplides chenopodii
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]

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Phoetaliotes nebrascensis

Genera

These 19 genera belong to the tribe Melanoplini: [1]

Data sources: i = ITIS, [4] c = Catalogue of Life, [5] g = GBIF, [6] b = Bugguide.net [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2018). "Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0" . Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  2. 1 2 "Melanoplini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  3. 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.
  4. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System" . Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  5. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  6. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-12-29.

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