Acrididae

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 (so they may be called "short-horned grasshoppers"), and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

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Eyprepocnemis is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae with species found in Africa, Southern Europe through to tropical Asia.

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Traulia is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Catantopinae; it was considered typical of tribe Trauliini, but is now placed in the tribe Mesambriini. A majority of species found in South-East Asia.

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Teratodes is the type genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Teratodinae; species are native to India and Sri Lanka and are sometimes known as hooded grasshoppers. It was established by the French entomologist Gaspard Auguste Brullé in 1835.

Pezotettix is a genus of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Pezotettiginae (similar to and previously placed in the Catantopinae).

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The Calliptaminae are a subfamily of grasshoppers containing species found in Africa, Europe and Asia; some are economically important. It was originally erected as a tribe by G.G. Jacobson in 1905 as the "Calliptamini", later uprated by Dirsh in 1956.

The subfamily Catantopinae is a group of insects classified under family Acrididae. Genera such as Macrotona may sometimes called "spur-throated grasshoppers", but that name is also used for grasshoppers from other subfamilies, including the genus Melanoplus from the Melanoplinae.

Acridoderes is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae with species found in Africa.

species of grasshopper endemic to New Zealand

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Mongolotettix is a genus of grasshoppers belonging to the family Acrididae.

Cordillacris is a genus of slant-faced grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least two described species in Cordillacris.

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Spathosternum is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae: subfamily Spathosterninae, with species found in Africa, including Madagascar and tropical Asia.

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species of grasshopper endemic to New Zealand

Acridini is a tribe of insects in the subfamily Acridinae, of the insect family Acrididae and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers". It was firstly described as Truxalis Conicus in 1781

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Proctolabinae is a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are more than 20 genera and 210 described species which are found in South America.

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Azelota is a genus of grasshoppers belonging to the family Acrididae.

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Tetrataenia is a genus of spur-throat toothpick grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least two described species in Tetrataenia, found in South America.

Habrocnemis is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Habrocneminae with species found in South-East Asia.

Paracaloptenus is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the subfamily Calliptaminae, erected by Ignacio Bolívar in 1878. Records of occurrence are from Spain and France, with a discontinuous (probably incomplete) distribution through to Ukraine and Turkey.

Micropodisma is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Podismini and subtribe Podismina, erected by D.P. Dovnar-Zapolskij in 1932. Species have a (possibly incomplete) recorded distribution from the Balkans, southern Russia to Kazakhstan.

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The Eyprepocnemidinae are a subfamily of Acrididae (originally described by Brunner von Wattenwyl under the synonym: Euprepocnemes) in the Orthoptera: Caelifera. Species can be found in Africa, mainland Europe and Asia.

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Heteracris is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are more than 60 described species in Heteracris, found in Africa, southern Europe, and mainland Asia through to India.

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