Acridini
Acrida conica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Acridinae
Tribe: Acridini
MacLeay, 1821
Genera

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Synonyms

Acridia MacLeay, 1821

Acridini[1] 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[2]

Description

Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.[3]

Genera

This tribe includes several monotypic Australian genera; the Orthoptera Species File lists:.[4]

  • Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 (widespread in Old World & Australasia)
  • Acridarachnea Bolívar, 1908 (Africa) monotypic:
    • Acridarachnea ophthalmica Bolívar, 1908
  • Caledia Bolívar, 1914 (Australia) monotypic:
  • Calephorops Sjöstedt, 1920 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Calephorops viridis Sjöstedt, 1920
  • Cryptobothrus Rehn, 1907 (Australia, synonyms Austrobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921, Exobothrus Sjöstedt, 1936) monotypic:
Cryptobothrus chrysophorus
  • Froggattina Tillyard, 1926 (Australia) monotypic:
  • Keshava (insect) Gupta & Chandra, 2017 (India)
    • Keshava barnawaparensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
    • Keshava jugadensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
    • Keshava shishodensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
  • Perala Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Perala viridis Sjöstedt, 1921
  • Rapsilla Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
    • Rapsilla fusca Sjöstedt, 1921
  • Schizobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:

References

  1. ↑ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
  2. ↑ "species Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781): Orthoptera Species File". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  3. ↑ Nayyar Azim, M.; Reshi, S. A. (April 2010). "TAXONOMIC NOTES ON THE TRIBE ACRIDINI LATREILLE (ACRIDINAE: ACRIDIDAE: ORTHOPTERA) OF KASHMIR, INDIA" (PDF). Acta Zoológica Mexicana. Nueva Serie. Instituto de Ecología. 26: 219–222. Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  4. ↑ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)
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