| Acrididae | |
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| Bark mimicking grasshopper, Coryphistes ruricola (Catantopinae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Superfamily: | Acridoidea |
| Family: | Acrididae MacLeay, 1819[2] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Acridiidae MacLeay 1821 | |
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.
- ^ "How Grasshoppers Hopped Around the World".
- ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2
- ^ Borror, Donald J. and Richard E. White. A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1970. p. 78