Melanoplini
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| Melanoplini | |
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| Aeoloplides chenopodii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Melanoplinae |
| Tribe: | Melanoplini Scudder, 1897 |
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.[1][2] Their biogeography shows that many species in the tribe have descendants from the Eocene epoch and Miocene epoch. [3]
