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.
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| Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Infraorder: | Acrididea MacLeay, 1821[1][2] |
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Acridomorpha
editThe 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
edit- ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").
- ^ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.
- ^ Orthoptera Species File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
- ^ Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
- ^ Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) A General Textbook of Entomology 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.
