''Plagiostira'' is a North American genus of
shield-backed katydid
The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve Tribe (biology), tribes.
Distribution
The greatest diversity is in the Palaearctic region and many of the familiar European spec ...
s in the family
Tettigoniidae
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, t ...
. There are at least three described species in ''Plagiostira''.
[ It is the only genus in the monotypic tribe Plagiostirini Storozhenko, 1994.][
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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
Further reading
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Tettigoniinae
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