Biology:Plagiostira
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Short description: Genus of cricket-like animals
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| 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.[1][2][3] It is the only genus in the monotypic tribe Plagiostirini Storozhenko, 1994.[4]
Species
These three species belong to the genus Plagiostira:
- Plagiostira albonotata Scudder, 1876 (white-marked shieldback) - type species
- Plagiostira gillettei Caudell, 1907 (Gillette's shieldback)
- Plagiostira mescaleroensis Tinkham, 1960 (mescalero shieldback)
References
- ↑ "Plagiostira Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=657762. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Plagiostira". https://www.gbif.org/species/1682913. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ "Plagiostira genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/153662. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Plagiostira Scudder, 1876". http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1142027. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Further reading
- Capinera, J. L; Scott, R. D.; Walker, T. J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8. https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetogras0000capi.
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