Melanoplini

Melanoplini
Aeoloplides chenopodii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

Phoetaliotes nebrascensis
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Otte2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference bugguide was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference biogeo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).