Acrididea

Acrididea
Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Infraorder: Acrididea
MacLeay, 1821[1][2]
Superfamily group and superfamily

Acrididea including the Acridomorpha[3] is an infraorder of insects that describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) and ground-hoppers. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea.[4] Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms,[5] which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.

  1. ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").
  2. ^ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.
  3. ^ Orthoptera Species File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
  5. ^ Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) A General Textbook of Entomology 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.