Melanoplinae
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| Adult male of Parapodisma tanzawaensis from the Podismini | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Superfamily: | Acridoidea |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 |
| Tribes | |
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The Melanoplinae are a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. They are distributed across the Holarctic and Neotropic ecozones.[1]
This is one of the two largest subfamilies in the Acrididae. As of 2001 the Melanoplinae contained over 800 species in over 100 genera,[1] and more species are being described continually.
The genera of the Melanoplinae are classified in 7 tribes,[2] including Conalcaeini, Dactylotini, Dichroplini, Jivarini, Melanoplini, Podismini, and Prumnini.
Melanoplus yarrowii
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Prumnacris rainierensis
Genera include:
- Aeoloplides
- Agnostokasia
- Agroecotettix
- Aidemona
- Akamasacris
- Apacris
- Aztecacris
- Barytettix
- Campylacantha
- Chloroplus
- Chortopodisma
- Conalpaea
- Cophopodisma
- Dactylotum
- Epipodisma
- Eurotettix
- Gymnoscirtetes
- Hesperotettix
- Hypochlora
- Italopodisma
- Karokia
- Melanoplus
- Micropodisma
- Miramella
- Neopedies
- Nisquallia
- Odontopodisma
- Oropodisma
- Parapodisma
- Parascopas
- Paroxya
- Pedies
- Peripodisma
- Podisma
- Propedies
- Prumnacris
- Pseudopodisma
- Pseudoprumna
- Pseudoscopas
- Psilotettix
- Radacris
- Rhabdotettix
- Sinaloa
- Tijucella
- Zubovskya
References
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- 1 2 Chintauan-Marquier, Ioana C.; Jordan, Steve; Berthier, Pierre; Amédégnato, Christiane; Pompanon, François (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.
- ↑ Woller, Derek A.; Fontana, Paolo; Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo; Song, Hojun (2014). "Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Liladownsia fraile, a new genus and species of Dactylotini (Acrididae: Melanoplinae) and an updated molecular phylogeny of Melanoplinae". Zootaxa. 3793 (4): 475–95. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3793.4.6. PMID 24870186.
External links
- Melanoplinae. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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