Plagiostira

Plagiostira
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Plagiostirini
Storozhenko, 1994
Genus: Plagiostira
Scudder, 1876

Plagiostira is a North American genus of shield-backed katydids in the family Tettigoniidae. There are at least three described species in Plagiostira. It is the only genus in the monotypic tribe Plagiostirini Storozhenko, 1994.

Species

These three species belong to the genus Plagiostira:

References

  1. ↑ "Plagiostira Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ↑ "Plagiostira". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ↑ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Plagiostira Scudder, 1876". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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