Acridini
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| Acridini | |
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| File:Acrida Conica.jpg | |
| Acrida conica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Acridinae |
| Tribe: | Acridini MacLeay, 1821 |
| Genera | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acridia MacLeay, 1821 | |
Acridini[1] is a tribe of insects in the subfamily Acridinae, of the insect family Acrididae and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers"[citation needed]. It was firstly described as Truxalis Conicus in 1781[2]
Description
[edit | edit source]Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.[3]
Genera
[edit | edit source]This tribe includes several monotypic Australian genera; the Orthoptera Species File lists:.[4]
- Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 (widespread in Old World & Australasia)
- Acridarachnea Bolívar, 1908 (Africa) monotypic:
- Acridarachnea ophthalmica Bolívar, 1908
- Caledia Bolívar, 1914 (Australia) monotypic:
- 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
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
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- ^ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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