Melanoplini

Melanoplini is a tribe of spur-throated grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are about 19 genera and more than 200 described species in Melanoplini, all in North America. Their biogeography shows that many species in the tribe have descendants from the Eocene epoch and Miocene epoch.

Genera

These 19 genera belong to the tribe Melanoplini:

• Aeoloplides <small>Caudell, 1916</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Agroecotettix <small>Bruner, 1908</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Aptenopedes <small>Scudder, 1878</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Cephalotettix <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{c g}</span>
• Chloroplus <small>Hebard, 1918</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Eotettix <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Floridacris <small>Otte, 2014</small><span style="color:gray">^{c g}</span>
• Floritettix <small>Otte, 2014</small><span style="color:gray">^{c g}</span>
• Hesperotettix <small>Scudder, 1876</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Hypochlora <small>Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Melanoplus <small>StÃ¥l, 1873</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Necaxacris <small>Roberts, 1939</small><span style="color:gray">^{c g}</span>
• Netrosoma <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{c g b}</span>
• Oedaleonotus <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Paroxya <small>Scudder, 1877</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Phaedrotettix <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Philocleon <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{c g b}</span>
• Phoetaliotes <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g b}</span>
• Sinaloa <small>Scudder, 1897</small><span style="color:gray">^{i c g}</span>

<small>Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net</small>

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