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]
| Acridini | |
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| Acrida conica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
Description edit
Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.[3]
Genera edit
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
- ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
- ^ "species Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781): Orthoptera Species File". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
- ^ 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)
External links edit
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