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Caelifera
infraorder
Acrididea
nanorder
Acridomorpha
superfamily Acridoidea MacLeay, 1821
urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:42090
Distribution:
Ecology:
Freshwater, terrestrial.
Citations (36):
Graber. 1867. Analytische Uebersicht über die in Tirol beobachteten Orthopteren. Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg (Ztschr. Ferdinand.) 3:270
Handlirsch. 1906. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen., Engelmann, Leipzig 1(3-4):19
Ander. 1939. Vergleichend-anatomische und phylogenetische Studien über die Ensifera (Saltatoria). Opuscula Entomologica 2(Suppl.):6 >> Note: Caelifera: Acridoidea
Chopard. 1951. Orthoptéroïdes. Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 56:203
Rehn, J.A.G. & H.J. Grant Jr. 1961. A monograph of the Orthoptera of North America (north of Mexico). Volume 1. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Monographs Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 12:21
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):353
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:4, 62, 67 >> Note: key to families
Mestre. 1988. Les acridiens des formations herbeuses d'Afrique de l'Ouest, CIRAD-PRIFAS 293 >> Note: key to genera
Johnsen. 1990. A new genus and three new species of Acridoidea with notes on some lesser known species from southern Africa (Orthoptera). Natura Jutlandica 23(1):1-22
Pardo Gonzalez, Gomez Ladrón de Guevara & Del Cerro Barja. 1991. Claves de determinación de los Orthopteroidea de los principales sistemas montañosos de Castilla-La Mancha. Al-Basit 17(29):164
Zheng, Z., L. Wan, G. Ren, Xin Wu, Lian, Jianren Zhou & Ruiquan Yang [Ed.]. 1992. Grasshopper Fauna of Ningxia, Shaanxi Normal University Press, Xian, Shaanxi 22 >> Note: key to families
Massa. 1994. Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei (Orthoptera Tetrigdae [Tetrigidae] et Acridoidea). Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana (Boll. Soc. entom. ital.) 126(1):3-8
Liu, Jupeng & Hongchang Li. 1995. In Liu, Jupeng & et al. Classification of acridoids from Hainan Island, China. Studies on acridoids of Hainan Island, Academy of Sciences, Beijing 29
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:518 pp. >> Note: Acridomorpha: Acridoidea
Hazra, Tandon, Shishodia, Mondal & Anita Dey. 1995. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea. State Fauna Series 4 Fauna of Meghalaya 3:214
>> Note: key to families
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & Flook. 1998. Phylogeny of the Caelifera and the Orthoptera as derived from ribosomal gene sequences. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 7:147-156
Zheng, Z. & G. Qiao. 1998. Cladistic analysis of the phylogenetic relationships among the families of Acridoidea (Orthoptera: Acridomorpha). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 23(3):276-280
Flook, S. Klee & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 1999. Combined molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Orthoptera (Arthropoda, Insecta) and implications for their higher systematics. Syst. Biol. 48(2):233-253
Xu, Sheng-Quan & Z. Zheng. 1999. The study on the phylogenetic relationship of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) based on the female subgenital plate. Entomotaxonomia 21(2):79-82
Wang, Guiling, Z. Zheng & Y. Huang. 2000. Comparative study of RAPD patterns variations in 5 families of Acridoidea. Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition) (J. Shaanxi Normal University Nat. Sci. Ed.) 28(1); Sum No 83:83-85, 90
Eades. 2000. Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:204
Ren, Z.-M., En-bo Ma & Y. Guo. 2002. The studies of the phylogeny of Acridoidea based on mtDNA sequences. Acta Genetica Sinica 29(4):314-321
Yin, Hong, D.-C. Zhang, Z. Bi, Z. Yin, Yong Liu & X.-C. Yin. 2003. Molecular phylogeny of some species of the Acridoidea based on 16S rDNA. Acta Genetica Sinica 30(8):766-772
Rentz, D.C.F., R.C. Lewis, Y. Su & Upton [Ed.]. 2003. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts, Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia 32 >> Note: key to families, subfamilies and tribes
Liu, Xin, Jianzhen Zhang, En-bo Ma & Y. Guo. 2005. Studies on the phylogenetic relationship of Acridoidea based on the male follicle morphology (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Oriental Insects 39:21-32
Liu, Dianfeng & G. Jiang. 2005. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Acridoidea based on 18S rDNA with a discussion on its taxonomic system. Acta Entomologica Sinica (Acta Entomol. Sin.) 48(2):232-241
Zhang, Hongjie & K. Huo. 2005. In Zhang, Runzhi & F.-M. Shi. Perspective of taxonomics of Acridioidea [Acridoidea]. Classification and diversity of insects in China, China Agricultural Science and Technology Press, China
Dey, Anita, S.K. Mandal & Hazra. 2006. On some collection of grasshoppers (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Radhanagari, Bison Reserve Forest, Kolhapur, Maharashtra. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (Rec. Zool. Survey India) 106:21-24 >> Note: key to families
Liu, Dianfeng, J. Zhao, L. Tao & J. Wu. 2007. Application of DNA sequences and RAPD techniques in molecular systematics of grasshoppers. Sichuan Journal of Zoology (Sichuan J. Zool.) 26:227-229
Ingrisch & D.C.F. Rentz. 2009. Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets). Encyclopedia of Insects, Academic Press 2nd ed.:740
Nayeem & M.K. Usmani. 2012. Taxonomy and field observations of grasshopper and locust fauna (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of Jharkhand, India. Munis Entomology & Zoology 7(1):393
>> Note: key to subfamilies and genera
Leavitt, Hiatt, Whiting & H. Song. 2013. Searching for the optimal data partitioning strategy in mitochondrial phylogenomics: A phylogeny of Acridoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) as a case study. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 67(2):494–508
Song, H. & Mariño-Pérez. 2013. Re-evaluation of taxonomic utility of male phallic complex in higher-level classification of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera: Caelifera. Insect Systematics and Evolution 44(3-4):241-260
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 57 >> Note: diagnosis
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 1-534
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):208
Type genus:
Acrida
Linnaeus, 1758; priority for family-group names based on
Acrida
dates from Acridina MacLeay, 1821. First use as Acridoidea by Ander, 1939.
family
Acrididae
MacLeay, 1821
Common name(s): grasshoppers; Feldheuschrecken
Distribution:
Ecology:
Freshwater, terrestrial. Herbivorous.
Citations (44):
MacLeay. 1821. Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals, S. Bagster, London 2
>> Note: Acridina
Latreille. 1825. Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposées succinctement et dans un ordre analytique, avec l'indication de leurs genres, J.-B. Baillière, Paris 1-570
>> Note: Acridites
Kirby, W. 1825. Some remarks on the nomenclature of the Gryllina of MacLeay, with the characters of a new genus in that tribe. Zoological Journal (Zool. J.) 1:429-432
>> Note: Locustidae
Fieber. 1844. Entomologische Monographien 137 pp., 10 pls. >> Note: Acridiodea
Siebold. 1848. Lerder ver vergleichenden Anatomie der wirbellosen Thiere. Lehrbuch der Vergleichenden Anatomie, Veit & Co., Berlin
Stål. 1875. Observations orthoptérologiques. 1. Sur une systématisation nouvelle des Phasmides. 2. Sur le système des Acdridiides. 3. Diagnoses d'Orthoptères nouveaux. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar (Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl.) 3(14):1–43
Stål. 1876. Observations orthoptérologiques 2. Les genres des Acridiodées de la faune Européenne. Aperçu des genres des Acridiodées de l'Amérique du Nord. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar (Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl.) 4(5):37
>> Note: Subf. Acrididae Stål
Thomas, C. 1880. The Acridi[i]dae of Illinois. Rep. Ins. Illinois 9:73-140 >> Note: Acridiidae
Krauss. 1890. Erklärung der Orthopteren-Tafeln J. C. Savigny's in der "Description de l'Égypte". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 40:270
>> Note: Acrididae
Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova) 2 13(33):132
>> Note: Acrididae
Poulton. 1896. On the courtship of certain European Acrididae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (Trans. Entomol. Soc. London) 233-252
Sjöstedt. 1932. Orthopterentypen in Naturhistorischen Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. 2. Acrididae. Arkiv för Zoologi (Ark. Zool.) 24(1):89 pp.
Hebard. 1934. The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History (Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist.) 20:125-279
Roberts, H.R. 1941. A comparative study of the subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) primarily on the basis of their phallic structures. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 93:201-246
Zeuner. 1942. The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt.). Part II. Oedipodinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London (Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.) 11 9:128 >> Note: Acrididae
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):386
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:405 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:409
Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Orthoptera. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, McGraw-Hill Book Company 2:376 >> Note: Acrididae
Key. 1988. Case 2568. Acrididae Karny, 1907, Oedipodidae Walker, 1870 and Locustidae Latreille, 1802 (Insecta, Orthoptera): proposed order of precedence. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 45(3):191-193
>> Note: proposed order of precedence
Tindale. 1989. Comments on the proposed order of precedence of the family-group names Acrididae, Oedipodidae and Locustidae (Insecta, Orthoptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 46(1):42
>> Note: Acrididae
Chapman, R.F. 1989. Comments on the proposed order of precedence of the family-group names Acrididae, Oedipodidae and Locustidae (Insecta, Orthoptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 46:42-43
Johnsen. 1991. Acrididae: Truxalinae & Gomphocerinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana (Acridoidea of Botswana) 3:285-372
Zheng, Z., L. Wan, G. Ren, Xin Wu, Lian, Jianren Zhou & Ruiquan Yang [Ed.]. 1992. Grasshopper Fauna of Ningxia, Shaanxi Normal University Press, Xian, Shaanxi 109 >> Note: key to species, Ningxia Hui
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:70 >> Note: Acrididoidea: Acrididae
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:630 pp. >> Note: Acridomorpha: Acridoidea: Acrididae
Bellmann & Luquet. 1995. Guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale, Delachaux et Niestle, Lausanne 230-353
Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera), China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing 9
Ragge & W.J. Reynolds. 1998. Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe, Harley Books, Colchester, Essex, U. K. i-x, 1-591
Coray & A.W. Lehmann. 1998. Taxonomie der Heuschrecken Deutschlands (Orthoptera): Formale Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Namen. Articulata Beiheft 7:99
Filipenko, Timofeeva, Gusachenko, Sergeev & Vysotskaya. 2000. Reconstruction of the phylogeny of grasshoppers from the family Acrididae (Orthoptera) based on the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence. Genetika 36(10):1355-1361
Cigliano & Morrone. 2000. Cladistic methods to analyze adaptation. Folia Entomológica Mexicana (Folia Ent. Mex.) 110:113-124
Yin, X.-C., K.-L. Xia & et al. 2003. Orthoptera Acridoidea. Supplement Gomphoceridae and Acrididae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 32(supplement):72
Liu, Dianfeng & G. Jiang. 2005. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Acridoidea based on 18S rDNA with a discussion on its taxonomic system. Acta Entomologica Sinica (Acta Entomol. Sin.) 48(2):232-241
Liu, Xin, Jianzhen Zhang, En-bo Ma & Y. Guo. 2005. Studies on the phylogenetic relationship of Acridoidea based on the male follicle morphology (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Oriental Insects 39:24 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae
Petit. 2005. Données récentes sur la phylogénie moléculaire des Acrididae, spécialement les Oedipodinae et les Gomphocerinae. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 10:7-18
Huo, G., G. Jiang, Z. Sun, Dianfeng Liu, Yalin Zhang & Lin Lu. 2007. Phylogenetic reconstruction of the family Acrypteridae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Journal of Genetics and Genomics (JGG) 34:303 >> Note: "... converging Catantopidae, Arcypteridae, Oedipodidae, Gomphoceridae, and Acrididae into the family Acrididae"
Liu, Dianfeng, Z. Dong, D.Y. Zhang, Y. Gu, P. Guo, R. Han & G. Jiang. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of the higher category of Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Zoological Research (Zool. Res.) 29(6):585
Wang, Nai-Xin, X.-L. Feng, G. Jiang, N. Fang & Xuan. 2008. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of five subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) based on the mithocondrial cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxydase subunit I gene sequences 51(11):1187
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 173 >> Note: diagnosis
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 255-449 >> Note: key to subfamilies
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):224
Storozhenko, T.-W. Kim & Jeon. 2015. Monograph of Korean Orthoptera, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 185 >> Note: key to genera
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4)
Type genus:
Acrida
Linnaeus, 1758; priority for family-group names based on
Acrida
dates from Acridina MacLeay, 1821. First use as Acrididae by Krauss, 1890.
subfamily
Acridinae
MacLeay, 1821
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous.
Citations (35):
Krauss. 1890. Erklärung der Orthopteren-Tafeln J. C. Savigny's in der "Description de l'Égypte". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 40:271
>> Note: Acridinae
Rehn, J.A.G. 1906. Studies in South and Central American Acridinae (Orthoptera), with the descriptions of a new genus and six new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 58:10
>> Note: Acridinae
Willemse, C. 1930. Fauna Sumatrensis (Bijdrage Nr. 62) Preliminary revision of the Acrididae (Orthoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (Tijdschr. v. Entomologie) 73:42
>> Note: Acridinae
Miller, N.C.E. 1934. XXXIV. Notes on Malayan Acrididae and descriptions of some new genera and species. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums (Jour. Fed. Malay States Mus.) 17(3):529
Slifer. 1939. The internal genitalia of female Acridinae, Oedipodinae and Pauliniinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Journal of Morphology 65(3):437-469
Liebermann. 1939. Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina (Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent.) 10:133, 147
Zeuner. 1942. The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt.). Part III. Acridinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London (Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.) 11 9:304 >> Note: Acridinae (Truxalinae)
Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. 1951. Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad 2:2
>> Note: key to genera
Mistshenko. 1952. Locusts and grasshoppers, Catantopinae. Fauna of the U.S.S.R. 4(2):24 >> Note: Acrididae: Acridinae
Rehn, J.A.G. & H.J. Grant Jr. 1960. A new concept involving the subfamily Acridinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 86(3):173-185
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):412
Shumakov. 1963. Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran [in Russian]. Trudy Vsesoyeiznogo Entomologicheskojo Obshchestva, Moskva [= Horae Societatis Entomologicae Unionis Soveticae] (Trudy Vses. Entomol. Obshch. [= Horae Soc. Entomol. Union. Sov.]) 49:116 >> Note: Acridinae
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:414 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Acridinae
Weidner. 1969. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Feldheuschrecken (Caelifera) Anatoliens. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut (Mitt. Hamburg. zool. Mus. Inst.) 66:178 >> Note: key to genera
Jago. 1971. A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world with a key to the genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 123:205-343
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):197, 202 >> Note: Acrididae: Acridinae
Jago. 1983. Flightless members of the Phlaeoba genus group in eastern and northeastern Africa and their evolutionary convergence with the genus Odontomelus and its allies (Orth.: Acridoidea, Acrididae, Acridinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 109(1):77
Johnsen. 1991. Acrididae: Catantopinae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Acridinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana (Acridoidea of Botswana) 2:170
Key. 1993. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 3. Subfamily Acridinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 7(4):779
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:240 >> Note: Acrididae: Acridinae
Hazra, Tandon, Shishodia, Mondal & Anita Dey. 1995. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea. State Fauna Series 4 Fauna of Meghalaya 3:225
Shishodia. 2000. Short and long-horned grasshoppers and crickets of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (Rec. Zool. Survey India) 98(1):46 >> Note: key to genera
Defaut. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France, Bedeilhac 44
Shishodia, Anita Dey & Tandon. 2003. In Zoological Survey of India [Ed.]. Fauna of Sikkim. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series (India State Fauna Series) 9 2:178
>> Note: key to genera
Dey, Anita & Hazra. 2003. Diversity and distribution of grasshopper fauna of greater Kolkata with notes on their ecology. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India (Mem. of the Zool. Survey of India) 19(3):23 >> Note: key to genera
Yin, X.-C., K.-L. Xia & et al. 2003. Orthoptera Acridoidea. Supplement Gomphoceridae and Acrididae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 32(supplement):192
Mahmood, Samira & Idris. 2007. Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of Malaysia with the description of a new species. Acta Entomologica Sinica (Acta Entomol. Sin.) 50(11):1156 >> Note: key to genera
Liu, Dianfeng, Z. Dong, D.Y. Zhang, Y. Gu, P. Guo, R. Han & G. Jiang. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of the higher category of Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Zoological Research (Zool. Res.) 29(6):585
>> Note: Acridinae non-monophyletic
Chapco & D. Contreras. 2011. Subfamilies Acridinae, Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae are "fuzzy sets": a proposal for a common African origin. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 20(2):173-190
>> Note: including Truxalinae
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 175 >> Note: diagnosis
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 258
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):369
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Popov, G.B., Fishpool & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2019. A review of the Acridinae s. str. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) of eastern Africa with taxonomic changes and description of new taxa. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 28(1):38
>> Note: polyphyletic assemblage
Baba, M.K. Usmani & Naz. 2022. Taxonomic studies on the subfamily Acridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Kashmir Valley, Himalayas with new records including a genus from the state. Munis Entomology & Zoology 17(Supplement):1533
Type genus:
Acrida
Linnaeus, 1758; priority for family-group names based on
Acrida
dates from Acridina MacLeay, 1821. First use as Acridinae by Krauss, 1890.
subfamily
Calliptaminae
Jacobson, 1905
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (17):
Dirsh. 1956. The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London) 108(7):255
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):403
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:410
Jago. 1967[1966]. A key, check list and synonymy to the species formerly included in the genera Caloptenopsis I. Bolivar, 1889, and Acorypha Krauss, 1877 (Orth. Calliptaminae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología (Eos) 42(3-4):402
>> Note: key to genera
Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Suppl:182
Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects, E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon 127 >> Note: Catantopidae: Calliptaminae
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:334
Llorente del Moral. 1982[1983]. La subfamilia Calliptaminae en Espana (Orthoptera: Catantopidae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología (Eos) 58:171
>> Note: key to species
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:143 >> Note: Acrididae: Calliptaminae
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 172 >> Note: Catantopidae: Calliptaminae
Defaut. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France, Bedeilhac 40, 42 >> Note: Catantopidae
Fontana, Buzzetti, Cogo & Odé. 2002. Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina, Museo Naturalistico Archaeologico di Vicenza, Vicenza 182, 225
Kocárek, J. Holusa & Vidlicka. 2005. Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera & Dermaptera Ceské a Slovenské republiky, Kabourek, Zlin, Czech Republic 196 >> Note: key to genera
Li, Baoping, Z.-W. Liu & Z. Zheng. 2011. Phylogeny and classification of the Catantopidae at the tribal level (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). ZooKeys 148:209–255
>> Note: Catantopidae: Calliptaminae
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):290
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 137
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: monophyletic subfamily
Type genus:
Calliptamus
Serville, 1831; priority for family-group names based on
Calliptamus
dates from Calliptamini Jacobson, G.G., 1905. First use as Calliptaminae by Dirsh, 1956.
subfamily
Caryandinae
Yin & Liu, 1987
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial.
Citations (6):
Yin, X.-C. & Z.-W. Liu. 1987. A new subfamily of Catantopidae with a new genus and new species from China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 12(1):67, 72
Storozhenko. 1992[1991]. In Gorochov & Korotiaev [Ed.]. News of Systematics and Faunistics of Vietnam Insects Part 2. Acridoidea (Orthoptera) collected by A.V. Gorochov in Vietnam in 1988. Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad] (Trudy Zool. Inst., Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad) 240:27 >> Note: synonym of Oxyini
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:35 >> Note: Acrididae: Caryandinae
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 95 >> Note: Catantopidae: Caryandinae
Ma, Lan & Y. Huang. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of some subfamilies of Catantopidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea) in China based on partial sequence of mitochondrial COII gene. Acta Entomologica Sinica (Acta Entomol. Sin.) 49(6):982-990
>> Note: closely related to Oxyinae
Hu, Z., Ji-shan Xu & B.-Y. Mao. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of Caryandinae based on mitochondrial COI gene sequences. Journal of Dali University 1(12):57-61
>> Note: monophyletic group
Scrutiny:
Braun, 2020, Should this be made a tribe of Catantopinae?
Type genus:
Caryanda
Stål, 1878; priority for family-group names based on
Caryanda
dates from Caryandinae Yin, X.-C. & Z.-W. Liu, 1987. First use as Caryandinae by Yin, X.-C. & Z.-W. Liu, 1987.
subfamily
Catantopinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (39):
Willemse, C. 1930. Fauna Sumatrensis (Bijdrage Nr. 62) Preliminary revision of the Acrididae (Orthoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (Tijdschr. v. Entomologie) 73:103
>> Note: Catantopinae
Zeuner. 1941. The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt.). Part I. Catantopinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London (Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.) 11 8:510-522
Mistshenko. 1945. Geographical distribution of the subfam. Catantopinae [Saltatoria (Orthoptera sens. str.) Acridodea]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 28(3-4):101-105
Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. 1951. Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad 1:131[138]
Mistshenko. 1952. Locusts and grasshoppers, Catantopinae. Fauna of the U.S.S.R. 4(2):52 >> Note: Acrididae: Catantopinae
Kevan, D.K.M. 1954. A note on the Acridid subfamily name Catantopinae (Orthoptera). Journal of the Society for British Entomology (Jour. Soc. Brit. Entom.) 4:223-225
Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 201 >> Note: Catantopinae
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):407
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:413 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Catantopinae
Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Suppl:223
Willemse, F.M.H. 1972. A study of Pseudocranae I. Bolivar, 1898 and related genera Salinacris C. Willemse, 1956, Sphaerocranae Gen. nov. and Malua Ramme, 1941 (Orthoptera: Acrioidea, Catantopinae). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg (Publ. natuurhist. Genootsch. Limburg) 22:34
Wintrebert. 1972. Nouvelles contributions à l'étude des Acridoidea malgaches (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Cent.) 8 198:87
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:211 >> Note: Catantopidae: Catantopinae
You, Q., Tianshan Li & D. Bi. 1983. Description of new genera and species of Catantopidae from Guangxi (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Entomotaxonomia 5(2):180
Lee, H.S. & C.E. Lee. 1983. Taxonomic revision of the Catantopinae from Korea (Orthoptera: Acrididae). 1. Hieroglyphini and Oxyini. Nat. Life 13(1):6 >> Note: key to genera
Yin, X.-C. 1984. Grasshoppers and locusts from Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China, Science Press, Beijing 45
Jago. 1984. The alate genera of east African Catantopinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) including revision of the genus Catantops Schaum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 110(3):299 >> Note: key to genera
Lee, H.S. & C.E. Lee. 1984. Taxonomic revision of the Catantopinae from Korea (Orthoptera: Acrididae). 2. Podismini. Korean Journal of Entomology (Korean J. Entomol.) 14(1):64
Bhowmik. 1986. Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zoological Survey of India - Technical Monograph (Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr.) 14:140
>> Note: key to genera
Johnsen. 1991. Acrididae: Catantopinae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Acridinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana (Acridoidea of Botswana) 2:133 >> Note: key to genera
Key. 1991. On four endemic genera of Tasmanian Acrididae (Orthoptera). Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 5(2):241-288
Zheng, Z., L. Wan, G. Ren, Xin Wu, Lian, Jianren Zhou & Ruiquan Yang [Ed.]. 1992. Grasshopper Fauna of Ningxia, Shaanxi Normal University Press, Xian, Shaanxi 38 >> Note: Catantopidae; key to species, Ningxia Hui
Key & Colless. 1993. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 2. Subfamily Catantopinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 7(1):91, 92, 94
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:206 >> Note: Acrididae: Catantopinae
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 163 >> Note: Catantopidae: Catantopinae
Xi, B. & Z. Zheng. 1999. A comparative study of the foregut armature of four species of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Catantopidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 24(4):381
Eades. 2000. Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:205 >> Note: Catantopinae
Shishodia. 2000. Short and long-horned grasshoppers and crickets of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (Rec. Zool. Survey India) 98(1):60
Mahmood, Yousuf & Khaliq. 2002. Taxonomic study of some Catantopinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan Journal of Zoology (Pakistan J. Zool.) 34(3):233 >> Note: key to genera
Fontana, Buzzetti, Cogo & Odé. 2002. Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina, Museo Naturalistico Archaeologico di Vicenza, Vicenza 178 [Eng. 224] >> Note: key to genera and species
Shishodia, Anita Dey & Tandon. 2003. In Zoological Survey of India [Ed.]. Fauna of Sikkim. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series (India State Fauna Series) 9 2:173
>> Note: key to genera
Li, Hongchang, K.-L. Xia & et al. 2006. Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 43:551
Mahmood, Samira & Idris. 2007. Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of Malaysia with the description of a new species. Acta Entomologica Sinica (Acta Entomol. Sin.) 50(11):1151 >> Note: key to genera
Song, H. & Wenzel. 2008. Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism. Cladistics 24:515-542 >> Note: relation of Catantopinae to Cyrtacanthacridinae
Liu, Dianfeng, Z. Dong, D.Y. Zhang, Y. Gu, P. Guo, R. Han & G. Jiang. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of the higher category of Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Zoological Research (Zool. Res.) 29(6):585
>> Note: Catantopinae non-monophyletic
Chapco. 2013. A note on the molecular phylogeny of a small sample of catantopine Grasshoppers. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 22(1):15–20
>> Note: not monophyletic
Storozhenko, T.-W. Kim & Jeon. 2015. Monograph of Korean Orthoptera, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 192
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2018. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 3. Acrididae: Catantopinae 224 pp.
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Scrutiny:
Braun, 2012, see also citations under Catantopidae
Type genus:
Catantops
Schaum, 1853; priority for family-group names based on
Catantops
dates from Catantopes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. First use as Catantopinae by Willemse, C., 1930.
subfamily
Copiocerinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (6):
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):196, 200 >> Note: Acrididae: Copiocerinae nov.
Amédégnato. 1977. Étude des Acridoidea centre et sud américains (Catantopinae sensu lato). Anatomie des genitalia, classification, répartition, phylogénie. Thèse, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. (mimeo.) 273 >> Note: diagnosis, tribes, list of included genera
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:46 >> Note: Acrididae: Copiocerinae
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 183 >> Note: diagnosis
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 259-264 >> Note: key to Colombian genera
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Type genus:
Copiocera
Burmeister, H., 1838; priority for family-group names based on
Copiocera
dates from Copiocerae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. First use as Copiocerinae by Amédégnato, 1974.
subfamily
Coptacrinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial.
Citations (11):
Kevan, D.K.M. 1966. Some Orthoptera-Caelifera from the Philippine, Bismarck and Solomon Islands, with a few interesting records from New Guinea and the Moluccas. Entomologiske Meddelelser (Ent. Meddelelser) 34:407 >> Note: Coptacrinae
Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Suppl:175
Dirsh. 1970. Acridoidea of the Congo (Orthoptera). Annales du Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Cent.) 8(182):123
Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects, E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon 125 >> Note: Coptacrinae
Bhowmik. 1986. Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zoological Survey of India - Technical Monograph (Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr.) 14:114
Key. 1992. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 1. General introduction and subfamily Oxyinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 6(3):547-551
Hochkirch. 1996. Physocrobylus tessa, a new grasshopper species from the East Usambara Mountains, NE Tanzania and its systematic position (Acridoidea, Acrididae, Coptacridinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 5:54
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 140 >> Note: Catantopidae: Coptacrinae
Shishodia. 2000. Short and long-horned grasshoppers and crickets of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (Rec. Zool. Survey India) 98(1):56
Storozhenko & T.-W. Kim. 2016. A new species in the genus Alectorolophus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 from Indonesia with discussion on its position compared to allied genera in subfamily Catantopinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zootaxa 4121(2):157 >> Note: correct name is Coptacrinae
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 88 >> Note: key to genera
Type genus:
Coptacra
Stål, 1873; priority for family-group names based on
Coptacra
dates from Coptacrae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. First use as Coptacrinae by Kevan, D.K.M., 1966.
subfamily
Cyrtacanthacridinae
Kirby, 1910
Common name(s): migratory bird locusts; Knarrschrecken
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous.
Citations (32):
Slifer. 1939. The internal genitalia of female Acridinae, Oedipodinae and Pauliniinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Journal of Morphology 65(3):437, 439, 443, 451
Slifer. 1940. The internal genitalia of female Ommexechinae and Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Journal of Morphology 67:199-239
Roberts, H.R. 1941. A comparative study of the subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) primarily on the basis of their phallic structures. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 93:221 >> Note: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Rehn, J.A.G. 1941. Notes on records and descriptions of oriental bird-locusts (Acrididae; Cyrtacanthracridinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 67(4):247-270
>> Note: Cyrtacanthracridinae
Rehn, J.A.G. 1956. Observations on several characters which have been used as primary differential criteria in the classification of the Cyrtacanthacridinae ( Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomological News (Entomol. News) 67(1):1-4
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):409
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:412 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):197, 202 >> Note: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:382
Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1983. A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory (Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab.) 13(1):711
Bhowmik. 1986. Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zoological Survey of India - Technical Monograph (Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr.) 14:128
>> Note: key to genera
Johnsen. 1991. Acrididae: Catantopinae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Acridinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana (Acridoidea of Botswana) 2:154 >> Note: key to genera
Richman, Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland & Ferguson. 1993. A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico, Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service Handbook (New Mex. Coop. Extens. Service Handbook) 7:19
>> Note: key to species
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:1 >> Note: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Hazra, Tandon, Shishodia, Mondal & Anita Dey. 1995. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea. State Fauna Series 4 Fauna of Meghalaya 3:256
>> Note: key to genera
Arillo & Ortuno. 1997. The fossil Acrididae from the Oligocene of Izarra (Alva, Spain). The antiquity of gregareous behavior (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Geobios New Reports 30(2):233
Moizuddin. 1998. Keys to the families, subfamilies, genera and species of locusts and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) recorded from Lasbela, Balochistan. Proceedings of Pakistan Congress of Zoology (Proceedings Pak. Congr. Zool.) 18:4 >> Note: key to species
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 130 >> Note: Catantopidae: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Shishodia. 2000. Short and long-horned grasshoppers and crickets of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (Rec. Zool. Survey India) 98(1):58 >> Note: Key to genera, India, Madhya Pradesh, Bastar District
Defaut. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France, Bedeilhac 39, 43 >> Note: Catantopidae
Fontana, Buzzetti, Cogo & Odé. 2002. Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina, Museo Naturalistico Archaeologico di Vicenza, Vicenza 178 [Eng. 224] >> Note: key to species
Shishodia, Anita Dey & Tandon. 2003. In Zoological Survey of India [Ed.]. Fauna of Sikkim. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series (India State Fauna Series) 9 2:177
>> Note: key to genera
Dey, Anita & Hazra. 2003. Diversity and distribution of grasshopper fauna of greater Kolkata with notes on their ecology. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India (Mem. of the Zool. Survey of India) 19(3):54 >> Note: key to genera
Song, H. 2004. On the origin of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (Orthoptera; Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 271(1548):1644 >> Note: systematic relationships
Song, H. 2005. Phylogenetic perspectives on the evolution of locust phase polyphenism. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 14(2):235-245
Li, Hongchang, K.-L. Xia & et al. 2006. Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 43:452
Song, H. & Wenzel. 2008. Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism. Cladistics 24:515
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 191
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 299
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):325
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: monophyletic subfamily
Hemp, C. & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2020. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae 36 >> Note: key to genera
Type genus:
Cyrtacanthacris
Walker, F., 1870; priority for family-group names based on
Cyrtacanthacris
dates from Cyrtacanthacrinae Kirby, W.F., 1910. First use as Cyrtacanthacridinae by Slifer, 1939.
subfamily
Egnatiinae
Bey-Bienko, 1951
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (16):
Bey-Bienko. 1951. In Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad 1:364 [391]
Mistshenko. 1952. Locusts and grasshoppers, Catantopinae. Fauna of the U.S.S.R. 4(2):24 >> Note: Acrididae: Egnatiinae
Bryantseva. 1953. Peculiarities in the structure of the foregut in acridids of the subfamily Egnatiinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Rev. Ent. U.R.S.S. 33:194-197
Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 594
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):388, 390, 410
Shumakov. 1963. Les acridiens et les autres orthoptères de l'Afghanistan et de l'Iran [in Russian]. Trudy Vsesoyeiznogo Entomologicheskojo Obshchestva, Moskva [= Horae Societatis Entomologicae Unionis Soveticae] (Trudy Vses. Entomol. Obshch. [= Horae Soc. Entomol. Union. Sov.]) 49:113
Dirsh. 1965. The African Genera of Acridoidea, Cambridge University Press, Antilocust Centre, London 180, 391
Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Suppl:284
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:413
Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects, E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon 103, 116
Fishelson. 1985. Fauna Palaestina. Insecta. Orthoptera: Acridoidea 3:105
Fishelson. 1993. Contribution to the knowledge of Egnatiinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Israel and Iran, with descriptions of a new genus and four new species. Israel Journal of Entomology (Israel J. Entomology) 27:2
>> Note: key to genera
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:37 >> Note: Acrididae: Egnatiinae
Yin, X.-C., K.-L. Xia & et al. 2003. Orthoptera Acridoidea. Supplement Gomphoceridae and Acrididae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 32(supplement):1
Huo, G., G. Jiang, Z. Sun, Dianfeng Liu, Yalin Zhang & Lin Lu. 2007. Phylogenetic reconstruction of the family Acrypteridae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Journal of Genetics and Genomics (JGG) 34:294-306
Defaut & François. 2022. Taxons orthoptériques nouveaux ou peu connus du Maroc oriental. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 27:33 >> Note: key to species
Type genus:
Egnatius
Stål, 1876; priority for family-group names based on
Egnatius
dates from Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko. First use as Egnatiinae by Bey-Bienko, 1951.
subfamily
Eremogryllinae
Dirsh, 1956
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations:
Dirsh. 1956. The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London) 108(7):259 >> Note: Eremogryllinae subfam. n.
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):413
Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Suppl:361
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:36 >> Note: Acrididae: Eremogryllinae
Type genus:
Eremogryllus
Krauss, 1902; priority for family-group names based on
Eremogryllus
dates from Eremogryllinae Dirsh, 1956. First use as Eremogryllinae by Dirsh, 1956.
subfamily
Euryphyminae
Dirsh, 1956
Common name(s): agile grasshoppers
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (13):
Dirsh. 1956. The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London) 108(7):255 >> Note: Euryphyminae subfam. n.
Dirsh. 1956. In Hanstrom, Brinck & Rudebeck. Orthoptera Acridoidea. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951, Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 3:121-272
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):404
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:411 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Euryphyminae
Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers, The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Suppl:191
Johnsen. 1990. A new genus and three new species of Acridoidea with notes on some lesser known species from southern Africa (Orthoptera). Natura Jutlandica 23(1):1-22
Naskrecki. 1995. A review of the Euryphyminae of Namibia and Angola (Insecta: Acridoidea). Cimbebasia 14:71-83
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:164 >> Note: Acrididae: Euryphyminae
Bazelet & Naskrecki. 2014. Taxonomic revision of the southern African genus Pachyphymus Uvarov, 1922 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Euryphyminae). Zootaxa 3753(5):401
Bazelet. 2014. Focus on Euryphyminae (Acrididae), Africa’s endemic agile grasshoppers. Metaleptea 34(3):6-8
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 5
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: monophyletic subfamily
Hemp, C. & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2020. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae 7 >> Note: key to genera
Type genus:
Euryphymus
Stål, 1873; priority for family-group names based on
Euryphymus
dates from Euryphyminae Dirsh, 1956. First use as Euryphyminae by Dirsh, 1956.
subfamily
Eyprepocnemidinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous.
Citations (23):
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):407
>> Note: Eyprepocnemidinae
Dirsh. 1962. The Acridoidea (Orthoptera ) of Madagascar. I. Acrididae (except Acridinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 12(6):314
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:411 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae
Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects, E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon 130
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:366
Bhowmik. 1986. Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zoological Survey of India - Technical Monograph (Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr.) 14:157
>> Note: key to genera
Grunshaw. 1990. The male paraproct of the Eyprepocnemidinae: a suggested function and its use as a taxonomic character (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Tropical Zoology 3(2):191-196
Grunshaw. 1991. A revision of the grasshopper genus Heteracris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae). Natural Resources Institute Bulletin (Nat. Resour. Inst. Bull.) 38:11
>> Note: key to genera
Key. 1992. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 1. General introduction and subfamily Oxyinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 6(3):548 >> Note: Catantopinae, Eyprepocnemidinae
Jago. 1994. Review of the genus Oxyaeida I. Bolivar 1914 and its close allies in the genera Neritius I Bolivar, 1914 and Paraneritius gen. nov. in eastern Africa (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Eyprepocnemidinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 3:43 >> Note: key to genera
Grunshaw. 1995. The taxonomy of Tylotropidius Stal 1873 and related genera (Orthoptera Acrididae Eyprepocnemidinae). Tropical Zoology 8(2):403 >> Note: key to genera
Sergeev. 1995. The general distribution of Orthoptera in the eastern parts of the Saharan-Gobian and Scythian subregions. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia (Acta Zool. Cracov.) 38(2):214 >> Note: Eyprepocnemidini
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:176 >> Note: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae
Eades. 2000. Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:204 >> Note: Eyprepocnemidinae
Shishodia. 2000. Short and long-horned grasshoppers and crickets of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (Rec. Zool. Survey India) 98(1):59 >> Note: key to genera
Suhail, A., G. Suhail, Arif, N.A. Shah & Yousuf. 2000. Taxonomic studies on Eyprepocnemidinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) of Pakistan. Pakistan Entomologist 22(1-2):105
Defaut. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France, Bedeilhac 40, 43 >> Note: Catantopidae
Shishodia, Anita Dey & Tandon. 2003. In Zoological Survey of India [Ed.]. Fauna of Sikkim. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series (India State Fauna Series) 9 2:171
>> Note: Key to genera; India, Sikkim
Dey, Anita & Hazra. 2003. Diversity and distribution of grasshopper fauna of greater Kolkata with notes on their ecology. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India (Mem. of the Zool. Survey of India) 19(3):60 >> Note: key to genera
Li, Hongchang, K.-L. Xia & et al. 2006. Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 43:585
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):337
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 160 >> Note: key to genera
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: monophyletic subfamily
Type genus:
Eyprepocnemis
Fieber, 1853; priority for family-group names based on
Eyprepocnemis
dates from Euprepocnemes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. First use as Eyprepocnemidinae by Dirsh, 1961.
subfamily
Gomphocerinae
Fieber, 1853
Common name(s): Grashüpfer
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous.
Citations (36):
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:418 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae
Jago. 1971. A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world with a key to the genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 123:222
Scoggan & Brusven. 1972. Differentiation and ecology of common immature Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of Idaho and adjacent areas. Melanderia 8:1-76
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):197, 203 >> Note: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae
Elsner. 1974. Neuroethology of sound production in gomphocerine grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Comparative Physiology A Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology (Jour. Comp. Physiol. A. Sens. Neural & Behav. Physiol.) 88(1):67-102
Harz. 1975. Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica (Ser. Entomol.) 11:587 >> Note: key to genera
Pitkin. 1976. A comparative study of the stridulatory files of the British Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 10(1):17-28
Luquet. 1978. La systematique des acridiens Gomphocerinae du mont Ventoux (Vaucluse) abordée par le biais du comportement acoustique (1) [Orthoptera, Acrididae]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (Ann. Soc. ent. Fr.) Nouvelle série 14(3):415-450
Otte, D. 1981. Acrididae: Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. North American Grasshoppers, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1:274 pp.
Bhowmik. 1985. Outline of distribution with an index catalogue of Indian grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Part I. Subfamilies: Acridinae, Truxalinae, Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper (Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Pub., Occas. Paper) 78:1-51
Holst. 1986. The Saltatoria (bush-crickets, crickets and grasshoppers) of northern Europe (in English). Fauna ent. scand. 16:85
Johnsen. 1991. Acrididae: Truxalinae & Gomphocerinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana (Acridoidea of Botswana) 3:294
Ingrisch. 1993. Taxonomy and stridulation of the Gomphocerinae and Truxalinae of Thailand (Othoptera, Acrididae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie (Revue Suisse de Zool.) 100(4):931
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:96 >> Note: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae
Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 1997. The phylogeny of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) as deduced from mtrRNA gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 8:89-103
Vickery. 1997. In Gangwere, M.C. Muralirangan & M. Muralirangan [Ed.]. Classification of Orthoptera (sensu stricto) or Caelifera. The Bionomics of Grasshoppers, Katydids and Their Kin, CAB International, Oxon and New York 14
Coray & A.W. Lehmann. 1998. Taxonomie der Heuschrecken Deutschlands (Orthoptera): Formale Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Namen. Articulata Beiheft 7:121
>> Note: Stenobothri Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893 possibly senior synonym, Gomphoceri Fieber 1853 only comprising group of spp. in genus Corthippus
Defaut. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France, Bedeilhac 52
Yin, X.-C., K.-L. Xia & et al. 2003. Orthoptera Acridoidea. Supplement Gomphoceridae and Acrididae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 32(supplement):5
Petit. 2005. Données récentes sur la phylogénie moléculaire des Acrididae, spécialement les Oedipodinae et les Gomphocerinae. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 10:7-18
Bugrov, Novikova, Mayorov, Adkison & Blinov. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of Palaearctic genera of Gomphocerinae grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Systematic Entomology (Systematic Ent.) 31:362-368 >> Note: tribal classifications
Contreras, D. & Chapco. 2006. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for multiple dispersal events in gomphocerine grasshoppers. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 15:91-98
Bukhvalova. 2006. Partioning of acoustic transmission channels in grasshopper communities. Insect Sounds and Communication, CRC Press 199-206
Savitsky. 2007. New data on acoustic communication and ecology of grasshoppers of the genera Eremippus and Dociostaurus (Orthoptera, Acrididae) and notes on the use of bioacoustic data in supraspecific taxonomy of the subfamily Gomphocerinae [English version]. Entomological Review (Ent. Rev.) 87(6):646
Dumasa, Tetreaub & Petit. 2010. Why certain male grasshoppers have clubbed antennae?. Comptes Rendus Biologies 333(5):429-437
Berger, D. & Gottsberger. 2010. Analysis of the courtship of Myrmeleotettix antennatus (Fieber, 1853) - with general remarks on multimodal courtship behaviour in gomphocerine grasshoppers. Articulata 25(1):1-21
Vedenina & Mugue. 2011. Speciation in gomphocerine grasshoppers: molecular phylogeny versus bioacoustics and courtship behavior. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 20(1):109-125
Nattier, Robillard, Amédégnato, Couloux, Cruaud & Desutter-Grandcolas. 2011. Evolution of acoustic communication in the Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae). Zoologica Scripta (Zool. Scripta) 40(5):479-497
Chapco & D. Contreras. 2011. Subfamilies Acridinae, Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae are "fuzzy sets": a proposal for a common African origin. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 20(2):173-190
Defaut. 2012. Implications taxonomiques et nomenclaturales de publications récentes en phylogénie moléculaire: 1. Les Gomphocerinae de France (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 17:15-20
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 205 >> Note: diagnosis
Hodjat. 2015. An introduction to subfamily Gomphocerinae Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera; Acrididae) of Iran with keys to tribes and genera. Journal of the Entomological Research Society (J. Entomol. Res. Soc.) 17(1):97-105
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 265-278
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Hawlitschek, E.M. Ortiz, Noori, Webster, Husemann & R.J. Pereira. 2022. Transcriptomic data reveals nuclear-mitochondrial discordance in Gomphocerinae grasshoppers (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acrididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 170:5
Sevastianov, Neretina & Vedenina. 2023. Evolution of calling songs in the grasshopper subfamily Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Zoologica Scripta (Zool. Scripta)
Type genus:
Gomphocerus
Thunberg, 1815; priority for family-group names based on
Gomphocerus
dates from Gomphoceri Fieber, 1853. First use as Gomphocerinae by Uvarov, 1966.
subfamily
Habrocneminae
Yin, 1982
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (9):
Yin, X.-C. 1982. On the taxonomic system of Acridoidea from China. Acta Biologica Plateau Sinica 1(1):81, 97
Yin, X.-C. 1984. Grasshoppers and locusts from Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China, Science Press, Beijing 61
Balderson & X.-C. Yin. 1987. Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea and Acridoidea) collected in Nepal. Entomologist's Gazette 38:283
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:163
Sergeev. 1995. The general distribution of Orthoptera in the eastern parts of the Saharan-Gobian and Scythian subregions. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia (Acta Zool. Cracov.) 38(2):215 >> Note: Habrocneminae syn of Eyprepocnemidini
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 182
Eades. 2000. Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:204
Li, Hongchang, K.-L. Xia & et al. 2006. Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 43:614 >> Note: Habrocneminae
Li, Baoping, Z.-W. Liu & Z. Zheng. 2011. Phylogeny and classification of the Catantopidae at the tribal level (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). ZooKeys 148:209–255
>> Note: Catantopidae: Habrocneminae
Type genus:
Habrocnemis
Uvarov, 1930; priority for family-group names based on
Habrocnemis
dates from Habrocneminae Yin, X.-C., 1982. First use as Habrocneminae by Yin, X.-C., 1982.
subfamily
Hemiacridinae
Dirsh, 1956
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (18):
Dirsh. 1956. In Hanstrom, Brinck & Rudebeck. Orthoptera Acridoidea. South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951, Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 3:121-272
Dirsh. 1956. The phallic complex in Acridoidea (Orthoptera) in relation to taxonomy. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London) 108(7):255 >> Note: Hemiacridinae subfam. n.
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):397
Dirsh. 1962. The Acridoidea (Orthoptera ) of Madagascar. I. Acrididae (except Acridinae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 12(6):276
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:407 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Hemiacridinae
Brown, H.D. 1972. New genera of African Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa (J. Entomol. Soc. S. Afr.) 35(2):269
Brown, H.D. 1973. A new genus of Acrididae from southern Africa (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa (J. Entomol. Soc. S. Afr.) 36(2):204 >> Note: key to genera, Loryma Group
Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects, E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon 88
Bhowmik. 1986. Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zoological Survey of India - Technical Monograph (Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr.) 14:90
>> Note: key to genera
Key. 1992. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 1. General introduction and subfamily Oxyinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 6(3):548
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:78 >> Note: Acrididae: Hemiacridinae
Hazra, Tandon, Shishodia, Mondal & Anita Dey. 1995. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea. State Fauna Series 4 Fauna of Meghalaya 3:245
>> Note: key to genera
Shishodia. 2000. Short and long-horned grasshoppers and crickets of Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (Rec. Zool. Survey India) 98(1):53 >> Note: key to genera
Dey, Anita & Hazra. 2003. Diversity and distribution of grasshopper fauna of greater Kolkata with notes on their ecology. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India (Mem. of the Zool. Survey of India) 19(3):39 >> Note: Hemiacridinae, key to genera
Shishodia, Anita Dey & Tandon. 2003. In Zoological Survey of India [Ed.]. Fauna of Sikkim. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series (India State Fauna Series) 9 2:167
>> Note: key to genera
Spearman. 2013. Taxonomic revision of the South African grasshopper genus
Euloryma
(Orthoptera: Acrididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 139(1):4
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 16 >> Note: key to genera
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Type genus:
Hemiacris
Walker, F., 1870; priority for family-group names based on
Hemiacris
dates from Hemiacridinae Dirsh, 1956. First use as Hemiacridinae by Dirsh, 1956.
subfamily
Incolacridinae
Tinkham, 1940
Distribution:
Ecology:
Freshwater, terrestrial.
Citations:
Storozhenko. 2021. On the exact position of the tribe Incolacridini in the modern classification of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zootaxa 4970(1):107, 108 >> Note: key to genera
Type genus:
Incolacris
Willemse, C., 1932; priority for family-group names based on
Incolacris
dates from Incolacri Tinkham, 1940. First use as Incolacridinae by Storozhenko, 2021.
subfamily
Leptysminae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Distribution:
Ecology:
Freshwater, terrestrial. Feeding on grasses and sedges. Mostly in marshy habitats.
Citations (10):
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):196, 200 >> Note: Acrididae: Leptysminae stat. nov.
Roberts, H.R. 1977[1978]. Much needed revisionary studies of Neotropical grasshoppers as seen from current work on the subfamily Leptysminae. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina (Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent.) 36(1-4):29-34
Roberts, H.R. 1977[1978]. A revision of the tribe Leptysmini except the genus Cylindrotettix (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Leptysminae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 129:33-69
Roberts, H.R. 1980. New taxa of the subfamily Leptysminae from Brazil (Acrididae; Orthoptera). Notulae Naturae 458:1-4
Roberts, H.R. & Carbonell. 1980. Concluding revision of the subfamily Leptysminae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 132:64-85
Riede. 1987. A comparative study of mating behaviour in some neotropical grasshoppers (Acridoidea). Ethology 76:280
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:53 >> Note: Acrididae: Leptysminae
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 255 >> Note: diagnosis
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 282-299 >> Note: key to tribes
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: monophyletic subfamily
Type genus:
Leptysma
Stål, 1873; priority for family-group names based on
Leptysma
dates from Leptysmae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. First use as Leptysminae by Amédégnato, 1974.
subfamily
Marelliinae
Eades, 2000
Distribution:
Ecology:
Freshwater, terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations:
Eades. 2000. Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:195, 204 >> Note: Marelliinae
Type genus:
Marellia
Uvarov, 1929; priority for family-group names based on
Marellia
dates from Marelliinae Eades, 2000. First use as Marelliinae by Eades, 2000.
subfamily
Melanoplinae
Scudder, 1897
Distribution:
Ecology:
Freshwater, terrestrial. Herbivorous.
Citations (33):
Scudder, S.H. 1896. The New England Melanopli. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology (Psyche) 7:367-370
>> Note: Melanopli
Scudder, S.H. 1897. Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acrididae) with special reference to North American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus.) 20(1124):1-421
>> Note: Melanopli
Scudder, S.H. 1897. The genera of N. American Melanopli. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci.) 32:195-206
McNeill. 1899. Arkansas Melanopli I. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology (Psyche) 8(275):332-334
Scudder, S.H. 1899[1897-1899]. Supplement to a revision of the Melanopli. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences (Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci.) 7:157-205
>> Note: Melanopli
Roberts, H.R. 1941. A comparative study of the subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) primarily on the basis of their phallic structures. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 93:201-246 >> Note: Melanoplini
Rehn, J.A.G. & Randell. 1963. A preliminary analysis of the lines of the super-tribe Melanoplini (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 115:1-32
>> Note: Melanoplini
Uvarov. 1966. Hibernation of active stages of Acridoidea in temperate climates. Atti della Accademia Gioenia di Scienze naturali in Catania (Atti Acad. Gioenia Sci. Nat. Catania) 6(13):182 >> Note: Melanoplinae
Brusven. 1972. Differentiation and ecology of common Catantopinae and Cyrtacanthacridinae nymphs (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of Idaho and adjacent areas. Melanderia 9:3
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):196, 199 >> Note: Melanoplinae, stat. nov.
Cantrall & Cohn. 1974. Melanoploid genitalia and mechanical isolation. Proceedings of the International Study Conference on the Current and Future Problems of Acridology 1970, London 35-44
Amédégnato. 1977. Étude des Acridoidea centre et sud américains (Catantopinae sensu lato). Anatomie des genitalia, classification, répartition, phylogénie. Thèse, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. (mimeo.) 297 >> Note: > Melanoplinae
Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1983. A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory (Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab.) 13(1):728, 729
Richman, Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland & Ferguson. 1993. A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico, Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service Handbook (New Mex. Coop. Extens. Service Handbook) 7:20
Kuperus & Chapco. 1994. Usefulness of internal transcribed spacer regions of ribosomal DNA in melanopline (Orthoptera: Acrididae) systematics. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer.) 87(6):751-754
Chapco, Kelln & McFadyen. 1994. Mitochondrial DNA variation in North American melanopline grasshoppers. Heredity 72(1):1-9
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:347 >> Note: Acrididae: Melanoplinae
Chapco & S.J. Guenther. 1998. An examination of the phylogenetic utility of taxonomic traits in melanopline grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 74(3):150-156
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 116
Knowles, L.L. & D. Otte. 2000. Phylogenetic analysis of montane grasshoppers from western North America (genus Melanoplus, Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer.) 93(3):421-431
Chapco, Litzenberger & Kuperus. 2001. A molecular biogeographic analysis of the relationship between North American melanoploid grasshoppers and their Eurasian and South American relatives. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 18(3):460-466
Johnson, D.L. 2002. Spur-throated grasshoppers of the Canadian prairies and northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 8:16-25
Amédégnato, Chapco & Litzenberger. 2003. Out of South America? Additional evidence for a southern origin of melanopline grasshoppers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 29(1):115-119
Litzenberger & Chapco. 2003. The North American Melanoplinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae): A molecular phylogenetic study of their origins and taxonomic relationships. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer.) 96(4):491-497
Li, Hongchang, K.-L. Xia & et al. 2006. Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 43:199
Song, H. & Wenzel. 2008. Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism. Cladistics 24:515-542 >> Note: relation of Melanoplinae to Cyrtacanthacridinae
Chintauan-Marquier, S. Jordan, P. Berthier, Amédégnato & Pompanon. 2011. Evolutionary history and taxonomy of a short-horned grasshopper subfamily: The Melanoplinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 58:22–32
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 283
Woller, Fontana, Mariño-Pérez & H. Song. 2014. Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Liladownsia fraile, a new genus and species of Dactylotini (Acrididae: Melanoplinae) and an updated molecular phylogeny of Melanoplinae. Zootaxa 3793(4):475–495
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 302 >> Note: key to Colombian tribes
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):231
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: monophyletic subfamily
Scattolini, Lira Noriega & Cigliano. 2020. Species richness, range size, and wing development in South American melanopline grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Ecological Entomology (Ecol. Entomol.) 45:840–853
Type genus:
Melanoplus
Stål, 1873; priority for family-group names based on
Melanoplus
dates from Melanopli Scudder, S.H., 1897. First use as Melanoplinae by Uvarov, 1966.
subfamily
Oedipodinae
Walker, 1871
Common name(s): band-winged grasshoppers; Ödlandschrecken
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (49):
Bolívar, I. 1876. Sinopsis de los Ortópteros de España y Portugal. Segunda parte. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat.) 5:350
>> Note: Edipodinos
Krauss. 1890. Erklärung der Orthopteren-Tafeln J. C. Savigny's in der "Description de l'Égypte". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 40:270
>> Note: Oedipodinae
Scudder, S.H. 1897. Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico, Cambridge, Mass. 32
>> Note: Acridiidae: Oedipodinae
Kirby, W.F. 1914. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae), London 128
>> Note: key to genera
Stshelkanovtzev. 1915. Liste des Oedipodides de la collection du Musee du Caucase. Bulletin Museum Caucase (Bull. Mus. Caucase) 9:1-4 >> Note: Oedipodides
Chopard. 1922. Orthoptères et dermaptères. Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 3:119, 160
>> Note: Oedipodinae
Handlirsch. 1922. Überordnung: Orthoptera (Latr.) m. (Geradflügler). Handbuch der Entomologie, (Schröder, C.), Gustav Fischer, Jena 3:449
Willemse, C. 1930. Fauna Sumatrensis (Bijdrage Nr. 62) Preliminary revision of the Acrididae (Orthoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (Tijdschr. v. Entomologie) 73:54
>> Note: Subfam. Oedipodinae
Slifer. 1939. The internal genitalia of female Acridinae, Oedipodinae and Pauliniinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Journal of Morphology 65(3):437-469
Roberts, H.R. 1941. A comparative study of the subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) primarily on the basis of their phallic structures. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 93:225 >> Note: Oedipodinae
Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. 1951. Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad 2:554[192]
Mistshenko. 1952. Locusts and grasshoppers, Catantopinae. Fauna of the U.S.S.R. 4(2):24 >> Note: Acrididae: Oedipodinae
Steinmann. 1965. The Oedipodinae (Orth.) of Western, Central and East Asia. Folia Entomologica Hungarica (n.s.) (Folia Ent. Hungarica) 17:93-122
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:415 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Oedipodinae
Scoggan & Brusven. 1972. Differentiation and ecology of common immature Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of Idaho and adjacent areas. Melanderia 8:1-76
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):197, 202 >> Note: Acrididae: Oedipodinae
Kopaneva, Kalinin, Vasilev & Kolodyazhnyi. 1976. Methodical appraoches to the studying of life forms of grasshoppers, the subfamily oedipodinae taken as an example (in Russian with English summary). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (Zool. Zhur.) 55(5):701
Bhowmik. 1986. Grasshopper fauna of West Bengal, India (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zoological Survey of India - Technical Monograph (Zool. Surv. India, Tech. Monogr.) 14:1-192
>> Note: Key to species India
Key. 1988. Case 2568. Acrididae Karny, 1907, Oedipodidae Walker, 1870 and Locustidae Latreille, 1802 (Insecta, Orthoptera): proposed order of precedence. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 45(3):191-193
Chapman, R.F. 1989. Comments on the proposed order of precedence of the family-group names Acrididae, Oedipodidae and Locustidae (Insecta, Orthoptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 46:42-43
Key. 1993. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 3. Subfamily Acridinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 7(4):782 >> Note: Acridinae, Oedipodini
Richman, Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland & Ferguson. 1993. A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico, Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service Handbook (New Mex. Coop. Extens. Service Handbook) 7:40
>> Note: key to species
Martel & Chapco. 1995. Mitochondrial DNA variation in North American Oedipodinae. Biochemical Genetics 33(1-2):1 >> Note: Mitochondrial DNA; phylogeny
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] D. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 5:315 >> Note: Acrididae: Oedipodinae
Peck, S.B. 1996. Diversity and distribution of the orthopteroid insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Canadian Journal of Zoology (Canad. J. Zool.) 74(8):1499
Flook & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 1997. The phylogeny of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) as deduced from mtrRNA gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.) 8:89-103
Chapco, Martel & Kuperus. 1997. Molecular phylogeny of North American band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer.) 90(5):561
Zheng, Z. & K.-L. Xia. 1998. Orthoptera. Acridoidea. Oedipodidae and Arcypteridae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 10:79, Engl. 554 >> Note: key to genera
Paul, J. 1998. One and a half years of Kenyan Orthoptera: III. Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation (Entomologist's Rec. J. Var.) 110(9-10):233-240
Moizuddin. 1998. Keys to the families, subfamilies, genera and species of locusts and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) recorded from Lasbela, Balochistan. Proceedings of Pakistan Congress of Zoology (Proceedings Pak. Congr. Zool.) 18:5 >> Note: key to genera
Coray & A.W. Lehmann. 1998. Taxonomie der Heuschrecken Deutschlands (Orthoptera): Formale Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Namen. Articulata Beiheft 7:108
Mahmood & Yousuf. 1999. New records of Oedipodinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) from Azad Jammu and Kashmir with the description of a new species. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 8:271 >> Note: key to genera
Eades. 2000. Evolutionary relationships of phallic structures of Acridomorpha (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:204 >> Note: Oedipodinae
Defaut. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France, Bedeilhac 44, 45
Johnson, D.L. 2001. Band-winged grasshoppers of the Canadian Prairies and Northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 7:5-12
Liu, Xin, Jianzhen Zhang, En-bo Ma & Y. Guo. 2005. Studies on the phylogenetic relationship of Acridoidea based on the male follicle morphology (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Oriental Insects 39:23 >> Note: Acridoidea: Oedipodidae
Guliaeva, Vysoskaya & Sergeev. 2005. Taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships of the Holarctic grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae): A new view on old problems. Evraziatskii Entomologicheskii Zhurnal 4(2):87-94 >> Note: Locustinae (=Oedipodinae)
Kocárek, J. Holusa & Vidlicka. 2005. Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera & Dermaptera Ceské a Slovenské republiky, Kabourek, Zlin, Czech Republic 210
Petit. 2005. Données récentes sur la phylogénie moléculaire des Acrididae, spécialement les Oedipodinae et les Gomphocerinae. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 10:7-18
Fries, Chapco & D. Contreras. 2007. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Oedipodinae and their intercontinental relationships. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 16(2):115-125
Defaut. 2008[2007]. Validité et champs d'application de divers vocables taxonomiques de la famille Acrididae (Orthoptera). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques 12:7 >> Note: Locustinae has priority over Oedipodinae
Liu, Dianfeng, Z. Dong, D.Y. Zhang, Y. Gu, P. Guo, R. Han & G. Jiang. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of the higher category of Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Zoological Research (Zool. Res.) 29(6):585
Chapco & D. Contreras. 2011. Subfamilies Acridinae, Gomphocerinae and Oedipodinae are "fuzzy sets": a proposal for a common African origin. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 20(2):173-190
Seino, Ghogomu, Manjeli, Dongmo & Chifon. 2013. A faunal survey of the Oedipodinae (Acrididae: Orthoptera) of the Menoua Division in Cameroon. International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies 1(1):15-19
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 291 >> Note: Oedipodinae, diagnosis; the names Locusta and Locustinae have been so confusingly employed in older literature that Oedipoda is used as type
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 279-281
Kumar, H. & M.K. Usmani. 2016. A new genus and new species (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) from India. Turkish Journal of Zoology 40:157-159
>> Note: key to genera
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Hemp, C. & C. Hugh Fraser Rowell. 2020. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 4. Acrididae: Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, Oedipodinae 90 >> Note: key to genera
Scrutiny:
Braun, 2014, See also recent citations under Oedipodidae.
Type genus:
Oedipoda
Latreille, 1829; priority for family-group names based on
Oedipoda
dates from Oedipodidae Walker, F., 1871. First use as Oedipodinae by Krauss, 1890.
subfamily
Ommatolampidinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Distribution:
Ecology:
Freshwater, terrestrial.
Citations (5):
Rodríguez L., Pinto O., Rodríguez T. & Cadena-Castañeda. 2013. Ortópteros comunes de las reservas naturales Tanimboca y Palmarí, Amazonas-Brasil-Colombia, The Filed Museum, Chicago 1-5
Cadena-Castañeda & Westerduing. 2013. Ortópteros comunes de Picuroyacu, Loreto-Perú, The Field Museum, Chicago
Matiotti da Costa, M.R. Pereira, Redü, L. Martins & Zefa. 2014. A new Neotropical genus of Ommatolampidinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with chromosome complement. Zootaxa 3869(4):493
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 318 >> Note: key to tribes
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Type genus:
Ommatolampis
Burmeister, H., 1838; priority for family-group names based on
Ommatolampis
dates from Ommatolampides Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. First use as Ommatolampidinae by Rodríguez L., Pinto O., Rodríguez T. & Cadena-Castañeda, 2013.
subfamily
Oxyinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous
Citations (18):
Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):400
Uvarov. 1966. Grasshoppers and Locusts. A Handbook of General Acridology, Cambridge University Press, London 1:408 >> Note: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Oxyinae
Hollis. 1975. A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 31(6):198, 200
>> Note: key to genera
Dirsh. 1975. Classification of the Acridomorphoid Insects, E. W. Classey Ltd., Farringdon, Oxon 124 >> Note: Catantopidae
Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1983. A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory (Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab.) 13(1):710
Yin, X.-C. & Z.-W. Liu. 1987. A new subfamily of Catantopidae with a new genus and new species from China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 12(1):68 >> Note: comparison with Caryandinae
Muralirangan, M.C., Shrinivasan & Suresh. 1992. Studies on shorthorned grasshoppers (Acridoidea) of Tamil Nadu - part 2. Hemiacridinae, Oxyinae, Coptacridinae, Tropidopolinae, Caloptinae, Eyprepocnemidinae, Catantopinae, and Cyrtacanthacridinae. Hexapoda (Insecta Indica) 4(2):153 >> Note: key to species
Key. 1992. A higher classification of the Australian Acridoidea (Orthoptera). 1. General introduction and subfamily Oxyinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 6(3):549
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:108 >> Note: Acrididae: Oxyinae
Hazra, Tandon, Shishodia, Mondal & Anita Dey. 1995. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea. State Fauna Series 4 Fauna of Meghalaya 3:249
Jiang, G. & Z. Zheng. 1998. Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, Guangxi Normal University 59, 69 >> Note: Catantopidae: Oxyinae
Shishodia, Anita Dey & Tandon. 2003. In Zoological Survey of India [Ed.]. Fauna of Sikkim. Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea. Zoological Survey of India State Fauna Series (India State Fauna Series) 9 2:168, 219
>> Note: key to genera
Li, Hongchang, K.-L. Xia & et al. 2006. Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta 43:19
Mahmood, Samira & Idris. 2007. Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) of Malaysia with the description of a new species. Acta Entomologica Sinica (Acta Entomol. Sin.) 50(11):1147 >> Note: key to genera
Huang, J.H., Z. Zheng, Y. Huang & Shanyi Zhou. 2009. New synonymies in Chinese Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zootaxa 1976:39-55
Li, Baoping, Z.-W. Liu & Z. Zheng. 2011. Phylogeny and classification of the Catantopidae at the tribal level (Orthoptera, Acridoidea). ZooKeys 148:209–255
>> Note: Catantopidae: Oxyinae
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 82
Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano. 2018. Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 2(4):16
>> Note: paraphyletic
Type genus:
Oxya
Serville, 1831; priority for family-group names based on
Oxya
dates from Oxyae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
subfamily
Pauliniinae
Hebard, 1923
Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Herbivorous.
Citations (16):
Hebard. 1924. Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Ecuador. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 76:176 >> Note: Paulininae
Hebard. 1931. Die Ausbeute der deutschen Chaco-Expedition 1925-26. Orthoptera. Konowia, Zeitschrift für Systematische Insektenkunde (Konowia) 10(4):271
>> Note: Pauliniinae
Hebard. 1933. Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia. Supplement to papers one to five. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 59(1):44
Roberts, H.R. 1937. Studies on the family Acrididae (Orthoptera) of Venezuela. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 89:351
Liebermann. 1939. Catálogo sistemático y biogeográfico de acridoideos argentinos. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina (Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent.) 10:219
>> Note: Pauliniidae
Slifer. 1939. The internal genitalia of female Acridinae, Oedipodinae and Pauliniinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Journal of Morphology 65(3):437-469
Roberts, H.R. 1941. A comparative study of the subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) primarily on the basis of their phallic structures. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 93:221 >> Note: Pauliniinae
Uvarov. 1943. The tribe Thrinchini of the subfamily Pamphaginae, and the interrelations of the acridid subfamilies (Orthoptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London) 93(1):23
Liebermann & Schiuma. 1946. Las "tucuras" más perjudiciales de nuestra agricultura y ganadería. Publicaciones del Instituto de Sanidad Vegetal, Buenos Aires B 2(7):20
Willemse, C. 1948. Notes on the Neotropical subfamily Pauliniinae (Coelopterinae) (Orthoptera: Acridiodea). Publicaties van het natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg (Publ. natuurhist. Genootsch. Limburg) 1:133
Eades. 1961. The terminology of phallic structures in the Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomological News (Entomol. News) 72:159
Amédégnato. 1974. Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida 3(3):198
Otte, D. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:12 >> Note: Acridoidea: Pauliniidae
Carbonell. 2000. Taxonomy and a study of the phallic complex, including its muscles, of Paulinia acuminata (Acrididae, Pauliniinae) and Marellia remipes (Acrididae, incertae sedis). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 9:161 >> Note: Acrididae: Pauliniinae
Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser. 2013. The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama, The Orthopterists' Society 373
Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 257
Type genus:
Paulinia
Blanchard, E., 1843; priority for family-group names based on
Paulinia
dates from Pauliniae Hebard, 1923. First use as Pauliniinae by Hebard, 1931.
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