Podismini

Podismini
Podisma amedegnatoae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Melanoplinae
Tribe: Podismini
Jacobson, 1905
Synonyms
  • Genimenini Li & Yin, 2009
  • Parapodisminae Inoue, 1985
  • Podisminae Jacobson, 1905
  • Primnoae Rehn & Randell, 1963
  • Prumnini Mayer, 2004

Podismini is a tribe of "spur-throated grasshoppers" in the family Acrididae. This tribe is unlike others in the subfamily Melanoplinae in that genera are found throughout the northern hemisphere, with a substantial number occurring outside the Americas (although there are about 12 in N. America).

Subtribes and genera

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following:

subtribe Miramellina

Auth.: Rehn & Randell, 1963; mainland Europe, China, Korea, Japan

Miramella alpina

subtribe Podismina

Auth.: Jacobson, 1905; N. America, Europe, Asia through to Japan

Odontopodisma sp.

subtribe Tonkinacridina

Auth.: Ito, 2015; Asia

genus group Bradynotae

Auth.: Rehn & Randell, 1963; N. America, E. Asia

incertae sedis

See also

References

  1. ↑ Capinera J.L, Scott R.D., Walker T.J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press
  2. ↑ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 21 December 2018)