Acridinae
Acridinae | |
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Acrida sp. | |
Oxyolena mucronata female | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Acrididae |
Subfamily: | Acridinae Macleay, 1819 |
Tribes | |
See text |
The grasshopper subfamily Acridinae, sometimes called silent slant-faced grasshoppers[citation needed], belong of the large family Acrididae in the Orthoptera: Caelifera.
Description[]
In appearance, the species are often similar to those of the subfamily Gomphocerinae, with whom they share a slanted face. However Acridinae differ from Gomphocerinae in that they lack stridulatory pegs on their hind legs and thus, as the common name suggests, do not make sounds. The antennae of this species is flattened and sword-like, a trait also shared with some gomphocerines and also with the spurthroated grasshoppers (subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae). They lack the posternal spine seen in the spurthroated grasshoppers and lubber grasshoppers (subfamily Romaleinae). Hind wings in this species range from nearly colorless to colorless.[1]
Tribes and genera[]
The Orthoptera Species File lists the following:[2]
Acridini[]
Auth.: MacLeay, 1821; distribution: widespread in warmer parts of the Old World & Australasia
(partial list):
- Acrida Linnaeus, 1758
- Bolívar, I., 1908
- Cryptobothrus Rehn, 1907
- Gupta & Chandra, 2017
Calephorini[]
Auth.: Yin, 1982; distribution: Africa, Europe, Indo-China; single genus:
- Calephorus Fieber, 1853
Gymnobothrini[]
Auth.: Uvarov, 1953 - Africa
- Popov, 2019
- Karsch, 1893
- Bolívar, 1890
- Karsch, 1893
- Dirsh, 1959
- Gymnobothrus Bolívar, 1889
- Ramme, 1931
- Uvarov, 1941
- Uvarov, 1953
- Uvarov, 1953
- Ramme, 1931
- Bolívar, 1914
- Willemse, 1994
- Karsch, 1893
Hyalopterygini[]
Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893; distribution: Americas
- Rehn, 1944
- Rehn, 1906
- Bruner, 1900
- Rehn, 1944
- Charpentier, 1845
- Metaleptea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
- Donato, 2004
- Stål, 1873
- Bruner, 1900
- Rehn, 1944
Pargaini[]
Auth.: Uvarov, 1953 - Africa
- Karsch, 1896
- Machaeridia Stål, 1873
- Bolívar, 1890
- Walker, 1870
- Jago, 1983
Phlaeobini[]
Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Africa, Middle East, Asia - selected genera:
- Cannula Bolívar, 1906
- Chlorophlaeoba Ramme, 1941
- Oxyphlaeobella Ramme, 1941
- Phlaeoba Stål, 1861
- Ramme, 1941
- Uvarov, 1936
Truxalini[]
Auth.: Serville, 1838
- - monotypic A. ophthalmica Bolívar, 1908
- Dirsh, 1950
- Dirsh, 1950
- Truxalis Fabricius, 1775
- Dirsh, 1950
- Dirsh, 1950 - monotypic X. fenestrata (Ramme, 1929)
Genera incertae sedis[]
- Liu, 1981
- Uvarov, 1922
- Bolívar, 1917
- Koçak & Kemal, 2008
- Dirsh, 1952
- Ramme, 1941
- Bolívar, 1917
- Liu, 1984
- Uvarov, 1939
- Dirsh, 1952
- Scudder, 1893
- Uvarov, 1953
- Willemse, 1932
- Liebermann, 1970
- Donskoff, 1977
- Bolívar, 1914
- Rehn, 1909
- Willemse, 1933
- Uvarov, 1953
- Stål, 1877
- Bolívar, 1914
- Bolívar, 1909
- Dirsh, 1966
- Karsch, 1896
- Willemse, 1933
- Willemse, 1951
- Usmani & Shafee, 1983
- Popov & Fishpool, 1992
- Liu, 1984
- Karsch, 1891
- Karsch, 1893
- Ramme, 1941
- Ramme, 1941
- Ramme, 1929
- Descamps & Wintrebert, 1966
- Bolívar, 1909
- Bolívar, 1902
- Willemse, 1951
- Bolívar, 1914
- Bolívar, 1914
- Fischer von Waldheim, 1833
- Bolívar, 1914
- Sjöstedt, 1931
- Liang & Jia, 1992
- Descamps & Wintrebert, 1966
- Zheng, 1977
- Yin, 1979
- Willemse, 1951
- Popov & Fishpool, 1992
- Uvarov, 1926
- Uvarov, 1927
- Descamps & Wintrebert, 1966
- Vitalisia Bolívar, 1914
- Miller, 1932
- Uvarov, 1927
- Popov & Fishpool, 1992
- Uvarov, 1925
- Ramme, 1929
- Johnsen, 1983
- Bolívar, 1902
Genera sometimes or formerly placed here[]
- Achurum and Mermiria (otherwise in Gomphocerinae)
- Gastrimargus (otherwise in Oedipodinae).
- the tribe Parapleurini (containing Stethophyma) is now placed in Oedipodinae.[3]
References[]
- ^ Capinera, John L; Scherer, Clay Whitney; Squitier, Jason (2002). Grasshoppers of Florida. University Press of Florida. p. 27. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ^ Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 31 March 2010)
- ^ Orthoptera Species File
External links[]
- Acridinae
- Acrididae
- Taxa named by William Sharp Macleay