Acridoidea
Encyclopedia
Acridoidea is a superfamily of grasshopper
s including locust
s in the order
Orthoptera
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Grasshopper
The grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper...
s including locust
Locust
Locusts are the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae. These are species that can breed rapidly under suitable conditions and subsequently become gregarious and migratory...
s in the order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
Orthoptera
Orthoptera
Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...
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Classification
- AcrididaeAcrididaeThe 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 are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the...
MacLeay, 1821 - Catantopidae
- Charilaidae Dirsh, 1953
- Dericorythidae Jacobson & Bianchi, 1902–1905
- Lathiceridae Dirsh, 1954
- Lentulidae Dirsh, 1956
- Lithidiidae Dirsh, 1961
- Ommexechidae Bolívar, 1884
- Pamphagidae Burmeister, 1840
- Pyrgacrididae Kevan, 1974
- RomaleidaeRomaleidaeThe Romaleidae or lubber grasshoppers are a family of grasshoppers.-Selected genera:Subfamily Bactrophorinae:* Bactrophora* OphthalmolampisSubfamily Romaleinae:* Romalea* Taeniopoda* Titanacris...
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 - Tristiridae Rehn, 1906