Acrididae

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 relatively short and stout antennae (so they may be called "short-horned grasshoppers"^[3]), and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

The Orthoptera Species File (September 2021) lists the following subfamilies of Acrididae. The numbers of genera and species are approximate and may change over time.

• AcridinaeMacLeay, 1821 (140 genera, 470 species), Worldwide: temperate and tropical
• CalliptaminaeJacobson, 1905 (12 genera, 90 species), Africa, Europe, Asia
• CaryandinaeYin & Liu, 1987 (3 genera, 100 species), Africa, Asia
• CatantopinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (325 genera, 990 species), Africa, Asia ("spur-throated grasshoppers")
• CopiocerinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (22 genera, 90 species), Central & South America
• CoptacrinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 110 species), Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia
• CyrtacanthacridinaeKirby, 1910 (38 genera, 170 species), Worldwide ("bird grasshoppers")
• EgnatiinaeBey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 (30 species), Africa to central Asia
• EremogryllinaeDirsh, 1956 (5 species), North Africa
  • Eremogryllus Krauss, 1902
  • Notopleura (grasshopper) Krauss, 1902
• EuryphyminaeDirsh, 1956 (23 genera, 80 species), Africa including Madagascar
• EyprepocnemidinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (26 genera, 150 species), Africa, mainland Europe, Asia
• GomphocerinaeFieber, 1853 (192 genera, 1200 species), Worldwide
• HabrocneminaeYin, 1982 (15 species), China, Indochina
  • Habrocnemis Uvarov, 1930
  • Longzhouacris You & Bi, 1983 - China only
  • Menglacris Jiang & Zheng, 1994 (syn. Tectiacris Wei & Zheng, 2005)- China
• HemiacridinaeDirsh, 1956 (45 genera, 180 species), Africa, Asia
• IncolacridinaeTinkham, 1940 (4 genera), East Asia
• LeptysminaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (21 genera, 70 species), Central and South America
• Marelliinae Eades, 2000 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
  • Marellia Uvarov, 1929
• MelanoplinaeScudder, 1897 (146 genera, 1100 species), Americas, Eurasia
• OedipodinaeWalker, 1871 (138 genera, 790 species), Worldwide
• OmmatolampidinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (115 genera, 290 species), South America
• OxyinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (33 genera, 210 species), Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia
• PauliniinaeHebard, 1923 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
• PezotettiginaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (10 species), Europe, western Asia, Middle East
• ProctolabinaeAmédégnato, 1974 (29 genera, 210 species), Central and South America
• RhytidochrotinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 40 species), South America
• SpathosterninaeRehn, 1957 (single tribe, currently with 3 genera and 12 species), Africa, Indomalaya, Australia
• TeratodinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (8 genera, 20 species), Africa, southwest Asia
• TropidopolinaeJacobson, 1905 (13 genera, 30 species), Africa, southern Europe, Asia

Tribe EucopioceriniDescamps, 1975 - Central America

1. Chapulacris Descamps, 1975
2. Eucopiocera - monotypic E. rubripes Bruner, 1908
3. Halffterina Descamps, 1975
4. Leptalacris Descamps & Rowell, 1978 - monotypic L. fastigiata Descamps & Rowell, 1978

unplaced genera (all monotypic)

• AtopacrisAmédégnato & Poulain, 1998
• CastetsiaBolívar, 1902
• JumandiacrisAmédégnato & Poulain, 1998
• MelliacrisRamme, 1941
• PalandellaAmédégnato & Poulain, 1998
• PileolumBolívar, 1917
• TylotropidiopsisStorozhenko, 1992
• †HeeracrisZeuner, 1937
• †MenatacridiumPiton, 1936
• †TaeniopoditesCockerell, 1909
• †TyrbulaScudder, 1885

• List of Acrididae genera
• List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe

• Media related to Acrididae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Acrididae at Wikispecies
• Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)