Acridini

Acridini[1] is a tribe of insects in the subfamily Acridinae, of the insect family Acrididae and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers".

Acridini
Acrida conica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Acridinae
Tribe: Acridini
MacLeay, 1821
Genera

See text

Synonyms

Acridia MacLeay, 1821

Description

Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.[2]

Genera

This tribe includes several monotypic Australian genera; the Orthoptera Species File lists:.[3]

  • Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 (widespread in Old World & Australasia)
  • Acridarachnea Bolívar, 1908 (Africa) monotypic:
    • Acridarachnea ophthalmica Bolívar, 1908
  • Caledia Bolívar, 1914 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Caledia captiva (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Calephorops Sjöstedt, 1920 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Calephorops viridis Sjöstedt, 1920
  • Cryptobothrus Rehn, 1907 (Australia, synonyms Austrobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921, Exobothrus Sjöstedt, 1936) monotypic:
    • Cryptobothrus chrysophorus Rehn, 1907
Cryptobothrus chrysophorus
  • Froggattina Tillyard, 1926 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Froggattina australis (Walker, 1870)
  • Keshava (insect) Gupta & Chandra, 2017 (India)
    • Keshava barnawaparensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
    • Keshava jugadensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
    • Keshava shishodensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
  • Perala Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Perala viridis Sjöstedt, 1921
  • Rapsilla Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Rapsilla fusca Sjöstedt, 1921
  • Schizobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Schizobothrus flavovittatus Sjöstedt, 1921

References
  1. MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
  2. Nayyar Azim, M.; Reshi, S. A. (April 2010). "TAXONOMIC NOTES ON THE TRIBE ACRIDINI LATREILLE (ACRIDINAE: ACRIDIDAE: ORTHOPTERA) OF KASHMIR, INDIA" (PDF). Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie). Instituto de Ecología. 26: 219–222. Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  3. Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)
  • Media related to Acridini at Wikimedia Commons
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