Sphingoderus

{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}

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Sphingoderus is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, in the tribe Sphingonotini, erected by Grigory Bey-Bienko in 1950.Bey-Bienko G (1950) Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 31: 203, 205. The recorded distribution of species (probably incomplete) is: North Africa, Europe (Greece) through to central Asia.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1103649 Orthoptera Species File: genus Sphingoderus Bey-Bienko, 1950 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 25 January 2024)] lists:

  1. Sphingoderus angustus {{Au|Descamps, 1967}}
  2. Sphingoderus carinatus {{Au|(Saussure, 1888)}} - type species (as Sphingonotus coerulans variety carinata Saussure)

References

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