''Microtes'' is a genus of North American
band-winged grasshopper
Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers, are the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers classified under the family Acrididae. They have a worldwide distribution and were originally elevated to full family status as the Oedipodidae. Many species p ...
s in the family
Acrididae
The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec ...
, and has at least 3 described species in ''Microtes''.
Species
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Microtes helferi''
(Strohecker, 1960)
* ''
Microtes occidentalis''
(Bruner, 1893) (little buzzer grasshopper)
* ''
Microtes pogonata
''Microtes pogonata'' is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in North America.
References
Oedipodinae
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Insects described in 1963
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(Strohecker, 1963)
References
Further reading
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Oedipodinae
Acrididae genera
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