Bandwing

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Bandwings
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Orthoptera Suborder: Caelifera Superfamily: Acridoidea Family: Acrididae Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Genera
Acrolytus Aiolopus Anconia Angaracris Arphia Asphingoderus Brunnerella Bryodema Bryodemella Camnula Celes Chortoicetes Chortophaga Cibolacris Circotettix Conozoa Derotmema Dissosteira Encoptolophus Epacromius Heliopteryx Lactista Leprus Leptopternis Locusta Mestobregma Metator Mioscirtus Morphacris Oedaleus Paracinema Parapleurus Platylactista Pseudoceles Psophus Pyrgodera Rehnita Scintharista Sphingonotus Stethophyma Trachyrhachys Trepidulus Trimerotropis Tropidolophus Wernerella Xanthippus

Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers (subfamily Oedipodinae) is a group of insects classified under the family Acrididae.

[edit] Description

These species are colorful, usually with hindwings that are yellow or red and edged with black. Others have black hindwings with pale edges, and a few species (including the most economically important ones) have clear hindwings.

The arolium is extremely small or absent.

[edit] Habitats

They inhabit primarily xeric weedy fields.