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Plagiostira
Sign in to savePlagiostira 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
Gillette's Shieldback
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderOrthoptera
- FamilyTettigoniidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 80
- With media
- 38
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Collections
- ANSP
- Recorded in
- United States
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- Parent taxon
- Tettigoniinae
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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)
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