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Chortophagini
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Chortophagini

Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers are the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers classified under the family Acrididae. They have a worldwide distribution and were originally elevated to full family status as the Oedipodidae. Many species primarily inhabit xeric weedy fields, and some are considered to be important locusts:

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5 branches of this tribe, most-observed first

Chortophaga

genusChortophaga

Chimarocephala

genusChimarocephala

Encoptolophus

genusEncoptolophus

Nebulatettix

genusNebulatettix

Shotwellia

genusShotwellia

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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 210441.