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.
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: Plagiostira albonotata Scudder, 1876 (white-marked shieldback) - type species Plagiostira gillettei Caudell, 1907 (Gillette's shieldback) Plagiostira mescaleroensis Tinkham, 1960 (mescalero shieldback)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).