Acridini

Acridini^[1] is a tribe of insects in the subfamily Acridinae, of the insect family Acrididae and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers"^{[citation needed]}.

Description

Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.^[2]

This tribe includes several monotypic Australian genera; the Orthoptera Species File lists:.^[3]

Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 (widespread in Old World & Australasia)
Acridarachnea Bolívar, 1908 (Africa) monotypic:
- Acridarachnea ophthalmica Bolívar, 1908
Caledia Bolívar, 1914 (Australia) monotypic:
- Caledia captiva (Fabricius, 1775)
Calephorops Sjöstedt, 1920 (Australia) monotypic:
- Calephorops viridis Sjöstedt, 1920
Cryptobothrus Rehn, 1907 (Australia, synonyms Austrobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921, Exobothrus Sjöstedt, 1936) monotypic:
- Cryptobothrus chrysophorus Rehn, 1907

Froggattina Tillyard, 1926 (Australia) monotypic:
- Froggattina australis (Walker, 1870)
Keshava (insect) Gupta & Chandra, 2017 (India)
- Keshava barnawaparensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
- Keshava jugadensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
- Keshava shishodensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
Perala Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
- Perala viridis Sjöstedt, 1921
Rapsilla Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
- Rapsilla fusca Sjöstedt, 1921
Schizobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
- Schizobothrus flavovittatus Sjöstedt, 1921

^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
^ Nayyar Azim, M.; Reshi, S. A. (April 2010). "TAXONOMIC NOTES ON THE TRIBE ACRIDINI LATREILLE (ACRIDINAE: ACRIDIDAE: ORTHOPTERA) OF KASHMIR, INDIA" (PDF). Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie). 26. Instituto de Ecología: 219–222. Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
^ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)