Pezotettiginae

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Pezotettiginae
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Pezotettix giornae, France
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily:Pezotettiginae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Synonyms
  • Pegotettix Dodge, 1876
  • Pelecycleis Fieber, 1853
  • Pelecyclus Fieber, 1853
  • Pezotettis Targioni-Tozzetti, 1881
  • Platyphyma Fischer, 1853

Pezotettiginae is a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, found in southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Mediterranean region. There are at least 2 genera and about 10 described species in Pezotettiginae. [1]

Grasshopper Common name for a group of insects

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is probably the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.

Acrididae Family of grasshoppers in the suborder Caelifera

The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

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Genera

These two genera belong to the subfamily Pezotettiginae:

<i>Pezotettix</i> Genus of grasshoppers

Pezotettix is a genus of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Pezotettiginae.

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References

  1. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "subfamily Pezotettiginae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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