Acrididae

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.

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

Subfamilies and selected genera
Acrida cinerea (Acridinae)

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following (genera complete in subfamilies marked §):

Acridinae
Calliptamus italicus (Calliptaminae)
Egyptian grasshopper Anacridium aegyptium (Cyrtacanthacridinae)

Auth.: MacLeay, 1819 – worldwide: temperate and tropical

Subfamilies C

Subfamilies E
Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans
  • Subfamily Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 - Africa to central Asia
    • Egnatius (genus) Stål, 1876
    • Leptoscirtus Saussure, 1888
  • Subfamily Eremogryllinae Dirsh, 1956 - north Africa §
  • Subfamily Euryphyminae Dirsh, 1956 - Africa including Madagascar
    • Acrophymus Uvarov, 1922
    • Euryphymus Stål, 1873
    • Phymeurus Giglio-Tos, 1907
  • Subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Africa, mainland Europe, Asia

Gomphocerinae

Auth.: Fieber, 1853 - worldwide

Meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus (Gomphocerinae)

Habrocneminae

Auth.: Yin, 1982 - Indo-China §

Hemiacridinae
Hieroglyphus daganensis

Auth.: Dirsh, 1956 - Africa, Asia

Leptysminae

Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 – central and south America

  • Leptysma Stål, 1873
  • Leptysmina Giglio-Tos, 1894
  • Stenacris Walker, 1870

Subfamilies M
Melanoplus femurrubrum (Melanoplinae)

Subfamilies O
Oedipoda caerulescens (Oedipodinae)
Adult female (left) and male Oxya yezoensis (Oxyinae: Oxyini)

Pauliniinae

Auth.: Hebard, 1923 - South America §

  • Paulinia Blanchard, 1843

Pezotettiginae

Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 §

Pezotettix giornae (Pezotettiginae)
  • Pezotettix Burmeister, 1840 - Europe and W Asia
  • Sphenophyma Uvarov, 1934 - Middle East

Proctolabinae

Auth.: Amédégnato, 1974 - central & south America

  • tribe Coscineutini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (monotypic)
    • Coscineuta Stål, 1873
  • tribe Proctolabini Amédégnato, 1974
    • Proctolabus Saussure, 1859

Rhytidochrotinae

Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Panama to Brazil

Rhytidochrota risaraldae
  • Rhytidochrota Stål, 1873

Spathosterninae

Auth.: Rehn, 1957 §

  • Laxabilla L. smaragdina Sjöstedt, 1934 - Australia
  • Paraspathosternum Ramme, 1929 - Africa
  • Spathosternum Krauss, 1877 - Africa & Asia

Teratodinae

Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Africa & SW Asia §

  • Acrostegastes Karsch, 1896
  • Esfandiaria Popov, 1951
  • Eurynotacris Ramme, 1931
  • Kabulia Ramme, 1928
  • Lyrotyloides Bei-Bienko, 1956
  • Lyrotylus Uvarov, 1923
  • Robecchia Schulthess Schindler, 1898
  • Teratodes Brullé, 1835

Tropidopolinae

Auth.: Jacobson, 1905 - Africa, S Europe, Asia

Tropidopola cylindrica (Tropidopolinae)
  • Afroxyrrhepes Uvarov, 1943
  • Tristria Stål, 1873

Tribe and Genera not placed
  • tribe Eucopiocerini Descamps, 1975 - central America §
    • Chapulacris Descamps, 1975
    • Eucopiocera - monotypic E. rubripes Bruner, 1908
    • Halffterina Descamps, 1975
    • Leptalacris Descamps & Rowell, 1978 - monotypic L. fastigiata Descamps & Rowell, 1978
  • genera not placed (February 2018):
    • Atopacris: A. manabiensis Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
    • Atympanum: Yin, 1982
    • Castetsia: C. dispar Bolívar, 1902
    • †Heeracris Zeuner, 1937: †H. oeningensis (Scudder, 1895)
    • Jumandiacris: J. perlata Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
    • Melliacris: M. sinensis Ramme, 1941
    • †Menatacridium: †M. eocenicum Piton, 1936
    • Palandella: P. cardinalis Amédégnato & Poulain, 1998
    • Pileolum: P. kirbyi Bolívar, 1917
    • Sinop (insect): S. gracilifemur Descamps, 1984
    • †Taeniopodites: †T. pardalis Cockerell, 1909
    • Tylotropidiopsis: T. abrepta Storozhenko, 1992
    • †Tyrbula Scudder, 1885: 2 †spp.

References
  1. MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2
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