''Plagiostira'' is a North American genus of

shield-backed katydid The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of Tettigoniidae, bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve Tribe (biology), tribes. Distribution The greatest diversity is in the Palaearctic region and many of the familiar ...

s in the family

Tettigoniidae Insects in the family (biology), family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America) or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the subo ...

. There are at least three described species in ''Plagiostira''. It is the only genus in the monotypic tribe Plagiostirini Storozhenko, 1994.

Species

These three species belong to the genus ''Plagiostira'': * '' Plagiostira albonotata'' Scudder, 1876 (white-marked shieldback) - type species * '' Plagiostira gillettei'' Caudell, 1907 (Gillette's shieldback) * '' Plagiostira mescaleroensis'' Tinkham, 1960 (mescalero shieldback)

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