Acrididea
| Acrididea | |
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| Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Infraorder: | Acrididea MacLeay, 1821[1][2] |
| Superfamily group and superfamily | |
Acrididea including the Acridomorpha[3] is an infraorder of insects that describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) and ground-hoppers. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea.[4] Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms,[5] which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.
Acridomorpha
The Orthoptera Species File lists the following superfamilies:
- Acridoidea (MacLeay, 1821)
- Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899
- †Locustopsoidea Handlirsch, 1906
- Pneumoroidea Thunberg, 1810
- Proscopioidea Serville, 1838
- Pyrgomorphoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874
- Tanaoceroidea Rehn, 1948
- Trigonopterygoidea Walker, 1870
References
- ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").
- ^ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.
- ^ Orthoptera Specis File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
- ^ Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
- ^ Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) A General Textbook of Entomology 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.
