Acrididae


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 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

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following :

[Acridinae]

Auth.: MacLeay, 1819 – worldwide: temperate and tropical
Auth.: Fieber, 1853 - worldwide

Auth.: Yin, 1982 - Indo-China §
Auth.: Dirsh, 1956 - Africa, Asia
Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 – central and south America
Auth.: Hebard, 1923 - South America §
Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 §

Auth.: Amédégnato, 1974 - central & south America
Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Panama to Brazil
risaraldae
Auth.: Rehn, 1957 §
Auth.: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Africa & SW Asia §
Auth.: Jacobson, 1905 - Africa, S Europe, Asia
cylindrica