Acrididae

Acrididae
Bark Mimicking Grasshopper, Coryphistes ruricola (Catantopinae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
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[]

Calliptamus italicus (Calliptaminae)

Pezotettix giornae (Pezotettiginae)

Egyptian grasshopper Anacridium aegyptium (Cyrtacanthacridinae)

Caryanda spuria (Caryandinae)

Eucoptacra anguliflava female (Coptacrinae)

Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans

Hieroglyphus daganensis

risaraldae

cylindrica (Tropidopolinae)

The Orthoptera Species File (September 2021) lists the following subfamilies of Acrididae. The number of species below is approximate, and the number of genera and species tend to 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")
• Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 (9 genera, 30 species), Africa to central Asia
• Dirsh, 1956 (2 genera, 5 species), North Africa
• Dirsh, 1956 (23 genera, 80 species), Africa including Madagascar
• Eyprepocnemidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (26 genera, 150 species), Africa, mainland Europe, Asia
• Gomphocerinae Fieber, 1853 (192 genera, 1200 species), Worldwide
• Habrocneminae Yin, 1982 (3 genera, 15 species), China, Indochina
• Hemiacridinae Dirsh, 1956 (45 genera, 180 species), Africa, Asia
• Incolacridinae Tinkham, 1940 (4 genera, 70 species), East Asia
• Leptysminae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (21 genera, 70 species), Central and South America
• Eades, 2000 (1 genera, 1 species), South America
• Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 (146 genera, 1100 species), Americas, Eurasia
• Oedipodinae Walker, 1871 (138 genera, 790 species), Worldwide
• Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (115 genera, 290 species), South America
• Oxyinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (33 genera, 210 species), Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia
• Hebard, 1923 (1 genera, 1 species), South America
• Pezotettiginae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (2 genera, 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 (3 genera, 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

• Not placed in a subfamily:
  • Tribe Descamps, 1975
  • Genus Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
  • Genus Bolívar, 1902
  • Genus Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
  • Genus Ramme, 1941
  • Genus Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
  • Genus Bolívar, 1917
  • Genus Tylotropidiopsis Storozhenko, 1992
  • Genus † Zeuner, 1937
  • Genus † Piton, 1936
  • Genus † Cockerell, 1909
  • Genus † Scudder, 1885

See Also[]

List of Acrididae genera

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Acrididae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Acrididae at Wikispecies
• Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)