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Infraorder of grasshoppers

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

Acrididea including the Acridomorpha 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. Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms, 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.

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 . Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.
  3. Orthoptera Species 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.

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Taxon identifiers
Acrididea
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