''Sphingoderus'' is a genus of
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are amongst what are possibly the most ancient living groups of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grassh ...
, in the
tribe
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Sphingonotini, erected by
Grigory Bey-Bienko
Grigory Yakovlevich Bey-Bienko (; 7 February 1903 – 3 November 1971) was a Soviet and Russian entomologist who specialized in Orthoptera.
Life and education
Bey-Bienko was born in Bilopillia. During his childhood, he regularly accompanied his ...
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.
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Sphingoderus'' Bey-Bienko, 1950 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 25 January 2024)]
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# '' Sphingoderus angustus''
# '' Sphingoderus carinatus'' - type species (as '' Sphingonotus coerulans'' variety ''carinata'' Saussure)
References
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Caelifera genera
Orthoptera of Africa
Orthoptera of Asia
Orthoptera of Europe
Oedipodinae