Acrididae

Acrididae

Bark Mimicking Grasshopper, Coryphistes ruricola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Superfamily:	Acridoidea
Family:	Acrididae MacLeay, 1819
Subfamilies
About 25, see text
Synonyms
Acridiidae MacLeay 1821

The Acrididae 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 and selected genera

Egyptian grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptum, Cyrtacanthacridinae)

Adult female (left) and male Oxya yezoensis (Oxyinae: Oxyini)

hooded grasshopper (Teratodus monticollis)

Subfamily Acridinae – silent slant-faced grasshoppers
Subfamily Calliptaminae
Subfamily Catantopinae – spur-throated grasshoppers
genus Chondracris
Subfamily Copiocerinae
- Chlorohippus
- Monachidium
Subfamily Coptacrinae
- Epistaurus
- Eucoptacra
Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae – bird grasshoppers
- Acanthacris
- Anacridium
- Austracris
- Nomadacris
- Schistocerca
- Valanga
Subfamily Egnatiinae
- Egnatius
- Leptoscirtus
Subfamily Eremogryllinae
- Eremogryllus
- Notopleura
Subfamily Euryphyminae
- Acrophymus
- Phymeurus
Subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae
- Eyprepocnemis
- Heteracris
Subfamily Gomphocerinae – slant-faced grasshoppers
- Achurum (sometimes placed in Acridinae)
- Chorthippus
- Cibolacris (sometimes placed in Oedipodinae)
- Dociostaurus
- Mermiria (sometimes placed in Acridinae)
- Omocestus
- Paragonista
Subfamily Habrocneminae
- Habrocnemis
Subfamily Hemiacridinae
- Acanthoxia
- Hemiacris
- Hieroglyphodes
Subfamily Leptysminae – spur-throat toothpick grasshoppers
Subfamily Marelliinae
Subfamily Melanoplinae – spur-throated grasshoppers
Subfamily Oedipodinae – band-winged grasshoppers
Subfamily Ommatolampinae
Subfamily Oxyinae
- Hieroglyphus
- Oxya
- Oxycrobylus
- Praxibulus
- Pseudoxya*
Subfamily Pauliniinae
Subfamily Proctolabinae
Subfamily Rhytidochrotinae
Subfamily Spathosterninae
Subfamily Teratodinae
Subfamily Tropidopolinae
- Afroxyrrhepes
- Tristria

References

Media related to Acrididae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Acrididae at Wikispecies
David C. Eades; Daniel Otte. Taxa display: family Acrididae in Ortoptera Species File Online. Version 2.0/3.5.

Extant Orthoptera families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Orthopterida

Suborder Ensifera

Grylloidea	Gryllidae (crickets) Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets) Mogoplistidae Myrmecophilidae (ant crickets)
Hagloidea	Prophalangopsidae (grigs)
Rhaphidophoroidea	Rhaphidophoridae (cave, camel and spider crickets; cave wetas)
Schizodactyloidea	Schizodactylidae (dune crickets or splay-footed crickets)
Stenopelmatoidea	Anostostomatidae (wetas, king crickets) Cooloolidae (Cooloola monster and relatives) Gryllacrididae (leaf-rolling crickets) Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem crickets)
Tettigonioidea	Tettigoniidae (katydids, bush-crickets or long-horned grasshoppers)

Suborder Caelifera

Acrididea

Acridoidea	Acrididae (grasshoppers, locusts) Catantopidae Charilaidae Dericorythidae Lathiceridae Lentulidae Lithidiidae Ommexechidae Pamphagidae (toad grasshoppers) Pyrgacrididae Romaleidae (lubber grasshoppers) Tristiridae
Eumastacoidea	Chorotypidae Episactidae Eumastacidae (monkey grasshoppers or matchstick grasshoppers) Euschmidtiidae Mastacideidae Morabidae Proscopiidae Thericleidae
Pneumoroidea	Pneumoridae (bladder grasshoppers)
Pyrgomorphoidea	Pyrgomorphidae (gaudy grasshoppers)
Tanaoceroidea	Tanaoceridae
Tetrigoidea	Tetrigidae (grouse locusts, pygmy locusts or groundhoppers)
Trigonopterygoidea	Trigonopterygidae Xyronotidae

Tridactylidea

Tridactyloidea	Cylindrachetidae (sandgropers) Ripipterygidae Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets)

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