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Sphingoderus

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

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Tribe: Sphingonotini
Genus: Sphingoderus
Bey-Bienko, 1950
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Sphingoderus is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, in the tribe Sphingonotini, erected by Grigory Bey-Bienko in 1950.1 The recorded distribution of species (probably incomplete) is: North Africa, Europe (Greece) through to central Asia.2

Species

The Orthoptera Species File2 lists:

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