Acrididae
Family of grasshoppers in the suborder Caelifera / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Acrididae,[2] commonly called short-horned grasshoppers,[3] 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.
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Acrididae | |
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Bark mimicking grasshopper, Coryphistes ruricola (Catantopinae) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Superfamily: | Acridoidea |
Family: | Acrididae MacLeay, 1819 |
Subfamilies | |
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Synonyms | |
Acridiidae MacLeay 1821 |
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