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Wikipedia / Acrididae

Acrididae 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 (so they may be called "short-horned grasshoppers"), and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

Subfamilies

The Orthoptera Species File (September 2021) lists the following subfamilies of Acrididae. The numbers of genera and species are approximate and may change over time.

  • Acridinae MacLeay, 1821 (140 genera, 470 species), Worldwide: temperate and tropical

  • Calliptaminae Jacobson, 1905 (12 genera, 90 species), Africa, Europe, Asia

  • Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (3 genera, 100 species), Africa, Asia

  • Catantopinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (325 genera, 990 species), Africa, Asia ("spur-throated grasshoppers")

  • Copiocerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (22 genera, 90 species), Central & South America

  • Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 110 species), Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia

  • Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910 (38 genera, 170 species), Worldwide ("bird grasshoppers")

  • Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 (30 species), Africa to central Asia

Eremogryllinae Dirsh, 1956 (5 species), North Africa

Habrocneminae Yin, 1982 (15 species), China, Indochina

Marelliinae Eades, 2000 (monotypic, 1 species), South America

  • Marellia Uvarov, 1929

  • Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 (146 genera, 1100 species), Americas, Eurasia

  • Oedipodinae Walker, 1871 (138 genera, 790 species), Worldwide

  • Ommatolampidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (115 genera, 290 species), South America

  • Oxyinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (33 genera, 210 species), Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia

  • Pauliniinae Hebard, 1923 (monotypic, 1 species), South America

  • Pezotettiginae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (10 species), Europe, western Asia, Middle East

  • Proctolabinae Amédégnato, 1974 (29 genera, 210 species), Central and South America

  • Rhytidochrotinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 40 species), South America

  • Spathosterninae Rehn, 1957 (single tribe, currently with 3 genera and 12 species), Africa, Indomalaya, Australia

  • Teratodinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (8 genera, 20 species), Africa, southwest Asia

  • Tropidopolinae Jacobson, 1905 (13 genera, 30 species), Africa, southern Europe, Asia

incertae sedisincertae sedis

  1. Tribe Eucopiocerini Descamps, 1975 - Central America

  2. Chapulacris Descamps, 1975

  3. Eucopiocera - monotypic E. rubripes Bruner, 1908

  4. Halffterina Descamps, 1975

  5. Leptalacris Descamps & Rowell, 1978 - monotypic L. fastigiata Descamps & Rowell, 1978

  6. unplaced genera (all monotypic):

  7. Atopacris Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998

  8. Castetsia Bolívar, 1902

  9. Jumandiacris Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998

  10. Melliacris Ramme, 1941

  11. Palandella Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998

  12. Pileolum Bolívar, 1917

  13. Tylotropidiopsis Storozhenko, 1992

  14. †Heeracris Zeuner, 1937

  15. †Menatacridium Piton, 1936

  16. †Taeniopodites Cockerell, 1909

  17. †Tyrbula Scudder, 1885

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