Acrididea
| Acrididea | |
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| Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Infraorder: | Acrididea Kevan, 1982[1] |
| Superfamily groups and Superfamilies | |
Acrididea including the Acridomorpha[2] is an infraorder of insects that best describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) or grasshopper-like families. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea (ground-hoppers).[3] Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms,[4] which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.
Superfamilies of Acridomorpha
- Acridoidea (MacLeay, 1819)
- Eumastacoidea
- Pneumoroidea
- Pyrgomorphoidea
- Tanaoceroidea
- Trigonopterygoidea
References
- ↑ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.
- ↑ Orthoptera Specis File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
- ↑ Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) A General Textbook of Entomology 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.
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