Acridinae

Taxobox
name = Silent slant-faced grasshoppers

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Adult male "Stethophyma grossum" of the Parapleurini
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Orthoptera
subordo = Caelifera
superfamilia = Acridoidea
familia = Acrididae
subfamilia = Acridinae
subfamilia_authority = Macleay, 1821
subdivision_ranks = Tribes
subdivision = 8, and see text

The silent slant-faced grasshoppers make up the subfamily Acridinae of the insect family Acrididae. In appearance, the species are very similar to those of the subfamily Gomphocerinae.

Tribes and selected genera

* Acridini
** "Acrida"
** "Caledia"
** "Froggattina"
* Calephorini
* Hyalopterygini
** "Metaleptea"
* Hypernephiini
* Parapleurini
** "Mecostethus"
** "Stethophyma" (sometimes placed in Oedipodinae)
* Phlaeobini
* Scyllini
* Truxalini
** "Truxalis"
* "incertae sedis"
** "Allotruxalis"
** "Cannula"
** "Chirista"
** "Coryphosima"
** "Orthochtha"
** "Oxyolena"
** "Zacompsa"

Sometimes placed here are "Achurum" and "Mermiria" (otherwise in Gomphocerinae) and "Gastrimargus" otherwise in Oedipodinae).