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Welcome to Subfamily Melanoplinae!

Melanoplinae - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Orthoptera > Suborder Caelifera > Infraorder Acrididea > Superfamily Acridoidea > Family Acrididae > Subfamily Melanoplinae

(From Wikipedia) The Melanoplinae are a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. They are distributed across the Holarctic and Neotropical realms.

FACT: While this subfamily is already respectably large, more and more species continue to be described almost every year!

Currently discovered: 1/6 Tribes, 0/14 Genera

Tribe

  1. Melanoplini