Acrididae

Taxobox
name = Acrididae

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image_caption = Female Woodland Grasshopper, "Omocestus rufipes" (Gomphocerinae: Gomphocerini)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Orthoptera
subordo = Caelifera
superfamilia = Acridoidea
familia = Acrididae
familia_authority = MacLeay, 1819
subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies
subdivision = About 25, see text

The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by antennae relatively short and stout, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

ubfamilies and selected genera

* Subfamily Acridinae – silent slant-faced grasshoppers
* Subfamily Calliptaminae
* Subfamily Catantopinae
* Subfamily Copiocerinae
** "Chlorohippus"
** "Monachidium"
* Subfamily Coptacrinae
** "Epistaurus"
** "Eucoptacra"
* Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae
** "Acanthacris"
** "Austracris"
** "Nomadacris"
** "Schistocerca"
** "Valanga"
* Subfamily Egnatiinae
** "Egnatius"
** "Leptoscirtus"
* Subfamily Eremogryllinae
** "Eremogryllus"
** "Notopleura"
* Subfamily Euryphyminae
** "Acrophymus"
** "Phymeurus"
*Subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae
** "Eyprepocnemis"
** "Heteracris"
*Subfamily Gomphocerinae
** "Achurum" (sometimes placed in Acridinae)
** "Chorthippus"
** "Cibolacris" (sometimes placed in Oedipodinae)
** "Dociostaurus"
** "Mermiria" (sometimes placed in Acridinae)
** "Omocestus"
** "Paragonista"
*Subfamily Habrocneminae
** "Habrocnemis"
*Subfamily Hemiacridinae
** "Hemiacris"
** "Hieroglyphodes"
* Subfamily Leptysminae
* Subfamily Marelliinae
* Subfamily Melanoplinae
* Subfamily Oedipodinae – band-winged grasshoppers
* Subfamily Ommatolampinae
* Subfamily Oxyinae
** "Oxya"
** "Oxycrobylus"
** "Praxibulus"
* Subfamily Pauliniinae
* Subfamily Proctolabinae
* Subfamily Rhytidochrotinae
* Subfamily Spathosterninae
* Subfamily Teratodinae
* Subfamily Tropidopolinae
** "Afroxyrrhepes"
** "Tristria"