Acrididea

Short description: Infraorder of grasshoppers

Acrididea

Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Orthoptera
Suborder:  | Caelifera
Infraorder:  | Acrididea
MacLeay, 1821[1][2]
Superfamily group and superfamily

* Acridomorpha
* Tetrigoidea

Acrididea including the Acridomorpha[3] is an infraorder of insects that describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) and ground-hoppers. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea.[4] Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms,[5] which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.

## Acridomorpha

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following superfamilies: most families and species belong to the Acridoidea.

* Acridoidea (MacLeay, 1821)
* Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899
* Chorotypidae Stål, 1873
* Episactidae Burr, 1899
* Eumastacidae Burr, 1899
* Euschmidtiidae Rehn, 1948
* Mastacideidae Rehn, 1948
* Morabidae Rehn, 1948
* †Promastacidae Kevan & Wighton, 1981
* Thericleidae Burr, 1899
* †Locustopsoidea Handlirsch, 1906
* †Bouretidae Martins-Neto, 2001
* †Eolocustopsidae Riek, 1976
* †Locustavidae Sharov, 1968
* †Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906
* Pneumoroidea Thunberg, 1810 (monotypic)
* Proscopioidea Serville, 1838 (monotypic)
* Pyrgomorphoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874 (monotypic)
* Tanaoceroidea Rehn, 1948 (monotypic)
* Trigonopterygoidea Walker, 1870
* Trigonopterygidae Walker, 1870
* Xyronotidae Bolívar, 1909

## References

1. ↑ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").
2. ↑ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.
3. ↑ Orthoptera Specis File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
4. ↑ Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
5. ↑ Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) A General Textbook of Entomology 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q20857752 entry

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