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Plagiostira
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Plagiostira

Plagiostira is a North American genus of shield-backed katydids in the family Tettigoniidae. 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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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Gillette's Shieldback

speciesPlagiostira gillettei

White-marked Shieldback

speciesPlagiostira albonotata

Mescalero Shieldback

speciesPlagiostira mescaleroensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 470785.