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Short Horned Grasshoppers

Acrididae

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Acrididae

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The Acrididae,[2] or short-horned grasshoppers,[3] 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

Pezotettix giornae (Pezotettiginae)
Caryanda spuria (Caryandinae)
Eucoptacra anguliflava female (Coptacrinae)
Rhytidochrota risaraldae

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.

  1. Acridinae MacLeay, 1821 (140 genera, 470 species), Worldwide: temperate and tropical
  2. Calliptaminae Jacobson, 1905 (12 genera, 90 species), Africa, Europe, Asia
  3. Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (3 genera, 100 species), Africa, Asia
  4. Catantopinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (325 genera, 990 species), Africa, Asia ("spur-throated grasshoppers")
  5. Copiocerinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (22 genera, 90 species), Central & South America
  6. Coptacrinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 110 species), Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia
  7. Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910 (38 genera, 170 species), Worldwide ("bird grasshoppers")
  8. Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 (30 species), Africa to central Asia
  9. Eremogryllinae Dirsh, 1956 (5 species), North Africa
    1. Eremogryllus Krauss, 1902
    2. Notopleura (grasshopper) Krauss, 1902
  10. Euryphyminae Dirsh, 1956 (23 genera, 80 species), Africa including Madagascar
  11. Eyprepocnemidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (26 genera, 150 species), Africa, mainland Europe, Asia
  12. Gomphocerinae Fieber, 1853 (192 genera, 1200 species), Worldwide
  13. Habrocneminae Yin, 1982 (15 species), China, Indochina
    1. Habrocnemis Uvarov, 1930
    2. Longzhouacris You & Bi, 1983 - China only
    3. Menglacris Jiang & Zheng, 1994 (syn. Tectiacris Wei & Zheng, 2005)- China
  14. Hemiacridinae Dirsh, 1956 (45 genera, 180 species), Africa, Asia
  15. Incolacridinae Tinkham, 1940 (4 genera), East Asia
  16. Leptysminae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (21 genera, 70 species), Central and South America
  17. Marelliinae Eades, 2000 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
    1. Marellia Uvarov, 1929
  18. Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 (146 genera, 1100 species), Americas, Eurasia
  19. Oedipodinae Walker, 1871 (138 genera, 790 species), Worldwide
  20. Ommatolampidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (115 genera, 290 species), South America
  21. Oxyinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (33 genera, 210 species), Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia
  22. Pauliniinae Hebard, 1923 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
  23. Pezotettiginae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (10 species), Europe, western Asia, Middle East
  24. Proctolabinae Amédégnato, 1974 (29 genera, 210 species), Central and South America
  25. Rhytidochrotinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 40 species), South America
  26. Spathosterninae Rehn, 1957 (single tribe, currently with 3 genera and 12 species), Africa, Indomalaya, Australia
  27. Teratodinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (8 genera, 20 species), Africa, southwest Asia
  28. Tropidopolinae Jacobson, 1905 (13 genera, 30 species), Africa, southern Europe, Asia

incertae sedis

  1. Chapulacris Descamps, 1975
  2. Eucopiocera - monotypic E. rubripes Bruner, 1908
  3. Halffterina Descamps, 1975
  4. Leptalacris Descamps & Rowell, 1978 - monotypic L. fastigiata Descamps & Rowell, 1978
  • unplaced genera:
  1. Atopacris Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
  2. Castetsia Bolívar, 1902
  3. Jumandiacris Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
  4. Melliacris Ramme, 1941
  5. Palandella Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
  6. Pileolum Bolívar, 1917
  7. Tylotropidiopsis Storozhenko, 1992
  8. †Heeracris Zeuner, 1937
  9. †Menatacridium Piton, 1936
  10. †Taeniopodites Cockerell, 1909
  11. †Tyrbula Scudder, 1885

See also

References

  1. ^ "How Grasshoppers Hopped Around the World".
  2. ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2
  3. ^ Borror, Donald J. and Richard E. White. A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1970. p. 78

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Acrididae: Brief Summary

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The Acrididae, or short-horned grasshoppers, 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.

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