Eumastacoidea

Eumastacoidea
	Some eumastacoids
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Informal group:	Acridomorpha
Superfamily:	Eumastacoidea; Burr, 1899
Families
	See text

Eumastacoidea is a superfamily within the order Orthoptera, suborder Caelifera. The family has a mainly tropical distribution and have sometimes been called "monkey grasshoppers".^[1]

Description[]

Some of the characters of the members of the superfamily are the lack of an abdominal tympanum, wings if present widen towards the tip, the antennae are short in some groups the hindlegs are spread out laterally at rest.^[2]

Families[]

(1910 illustration)

The overall classification based on characteristics of the genitalia and the geographic distribution of family groups are as follows:

- Family Chorotypidae
  - Chorotypinae (Burr, 1903) Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Africa
  - Descamps 1973, India
  - Erianthinae (Burr, 1903) Southeast Asia, South Asia
  - Eruciinae Burr, 1903 Southeast Asia
  - Chininae Burr, 1903 China.
  - Descamps, 1973 Indo-Malayan Archipelago
- Family Episactidae (Central and South America)
  - Burr, 1903
  - Rehn, 1948 (Hispaniola)
  - I. Bolivar, 1903
.
- Family Morabidae
  - C. Bolivar, 1930 - Australasia
  - Morabinae Rehn, 1948 - Australia
- Family Eumastacidae
  - Gomphomastacinae Burr, 1903 Central Asia
  - Rehn, 1948 (Central and South America)
  - Descamps, 1973, Cuba.
  - Dirsh, 1975 South America
  - Eumastacinae Burr, 1903 South America
  - Dirsh, 1961 South America
  - Dirsh, 1961 South America
  - Temnomastacinae (Rehn, 1948) South America
- Family Mastacideidae (South India)
  - Rehn, 1948, S. India.
- Family Euschmidtiidae
  - Rehn, 1948 -Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles
  - Descamps, 1964 Madagascar, Comoros and mainland Africa
  - Descamps, 1973, Coastal East Africa
- Family Thericleidae (Africa)
  - Descamps, 1977
  - Descamps, 1977
  - Descamps, 1977
  - Descamps, 1977
  - Bolívar, 1914
  - Burr, 1899
Extinct:
- Family †Promastacidae Kevan & Wighton, 1981
  - genus † Kevan & Wighton, 1981
  - genus † Handlirsch, 1910

References[]

^ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 July 2021)
^ S. Matt; P. K. Flook; C. H. F. Rowell (2008). "A Partial Molecular Phylogeny of the Eumastacoidea s. lat. (Orthoptera, Caelifera)" (PDF). Journal of Orthoptera Research. 17 (1): 43–55. doi:10.1665/1082-6467(2008)17[43:apmpot]2.0.co;2.

External links[]

Media related to Eumastacoidea at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Eumastacoidea at Wikispecies
Orthoptera species file

[OSF-1] Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 July 2021)

[2] S. Matt; P. K. Flook; C. H. F. Rowell (2008). "A Partial Molecular Phylogeny of the Eumastacoidea s. lat. (Orthoptera, Caelifera)" (PDF). Journal of Orthoptera Research. 17 (1): 43–55. doi:10.1665/1082-6467(2008)17[43:apmpot]2.0.co;2.

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