Acrididae

Acrididae
Bark Mimicking Grasshopper, Coryphistes ruricola (Catantopinae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Orthoptera
Superfamily:Acridoidea
Family:Acrididae
MacLeay, 1819
Subfamilies

See text

Synonyms

Acridiidae MacLeay 1821

The Acrididae[1] are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

Subfamilies and selected genera

Acrida cinerea (Acridinae)
Calliptamus italicus (Calliptaminae)
Egyptian grasshopper Anacridium aegyptium (Cyrtacanthacridinae)
Meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus (Gomphocerinae)
Melanoplus femurrubrum (Melanoplinae)
Oedipoda caerulescens (Oedipodinae)
Adult female (left) and male Oxya yezoensis (Oxyinae: Oxyini)
''Pezotettix giornae (Pezotettiginae)
hooded grasshopper Teratodes monticollis (Teratodinae)
Tropidopola cylindrica (Tropidopolinae)

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following (genera complete in subfamilies marked §):

  • Subfamily Acridinae MacLeay, 1821 – worldwide: temperate and tropical
  • Subfamily Calliptaminae Jacobson, 1905 - Africa, Europe, Asia
  • Subfamily Catantopinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 – Africa, Asia ("spur-throated grasshoppers")
  • Subfamily Copiocerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - central & southern America
  • - tribe Aleuasini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  • - tribe Clematodini Rehn & Eades, 1961
  • - tribe Copiocerini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  • Subfamily Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia
  • Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910 – worldwide ("bird grasshoppers")
  • Subfamily Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 - Africa to central Asia
    • Egnatius (genus) Stål, 1876
    • Leptoscirtus Saussure, 1888
  • Subfamily Eremogryllinae Dirsh, 1956 - north Africa §
    • Eremogryllus Krauss, 1902
    • Notopleura Krauss, 1902
  • Subfamily Euryphyminae Dirsh, 1956 - Africa including Madagascar
    • Acrophymus Uvarov, 1922
    • Phymeurus Giglio-Tos, 1907
  • Subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Africa, mainland Europe, Asia
    • Cataloipus Bolívar, 1890
    • Euryphymus Stål, 1873
    • Eyprepocnemis Fieber, 1853
  • Subfamily Gomphocerinae Fieber, 1853 - worldwide
  • Subfamily Habrocneminae Yin, 1982 - Indo-China §
    • Habrocnemis Uvarov, 1930
    • Tectiacris Wei & Zheng, 2005
  • Subfamily Hemiacridinae Dirsh, 1956 - Africa, Asia
  • Subfamily Leptysminae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 – central and south America
  • Subfamily Marelliinae Eades, 2000 - South America §
    • Marellia Uvarov, 1929
  • Subfamily Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 – Americas, Eurasia
  • Subfamily Oedipodinae Walker, 1871 – Worldwide
  • Subfamily Ommatolampidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - south America
  • Subfamily Oxyinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  • Subfamily Pauliniinae Hebard, 1923 - south America §
  • Subfamily Pezotettiginae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 §
    • Pezotettix Burmeister, 1840 - Europe and W Asia
    • Sphenophyma Uvarov, 1934 - Middle East
  • Subfamily Proctolabinae Amédégnato, 1974 - central & south America
  • Subfamily Rhytidochrotinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Panama to Brazil
  • Subfamily Spathosterninae Rehn, 1957 §
    • Laxabilla L. smaragdina Sjöstedt, 1934 - Australia
    • Paraspathosternum Ramme, 1929 - Africa
    • Spathosternum Krauss, 1877 - Africa & Asia
  • Subfamily Teratodinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Africa & SW Asia §
    • Acrostegastes Karsch, 1896
    • Esfandiaria Popov, 1951
    • Eurynotacris Ramme, 1931
    • Kabulia Ramme, 1928
    • Lyrotyloides Bei-Bienko, 1956
    • Lyrotylus Uvarov, 1923
    • Robecchia Schulthess Schindler, 1898
    • Teratodes Brullé, 1835
  • Subfamily Tropidopolinae Jacobson, 1905 - Africa, S Europe, Asia
    • Afroxyrrhepes Uvarov, 1943
    • Tristria Stål, 1873
  • Subfamily not determined
    • tribe Eucopiocerini Descamps, 1975 - central America
  • genera not placed (February 2018):
    • Atopacris: A. manabiensis Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
    • Castetsia: C. dispar Bolívar, 1902
    • †Heeracris Zeuner, 1937: †H. oeningensis (Scudder, 1895)
    • Jumandiacris: J. perlata Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
    • Melliacris: M. sinensis Ramme, 1941
    • †Menatacridium: †M. eocenicum Piton, 1936
    • Palandella: P. cardinalis Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
    • Pileolum: P. kirbyi Bolívar, 1917
    • Sinop: Sinop gracilifemur Descamps, 1984
    • †Taeniopodites: †T. pardalis Cockerell, 1909
    • Tylotropidiopsis: T. abrepta Storozhenko, 1992
    • †Tyrbula Scudder, 1885: 2 †spp.

References

  1. ↑ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2
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