Acridoidea

Acridoidea
Miramella alpina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Infraorder: Acrididea
Informal group: Acridomorpha
Superfamily: Acridoidea
MacLeay, 1821[1]
Families

See Classification.

Synonyms
  • Acridina MacLeay, 1821
  • Acridiodea MacLeay, 1821
  • Akridiodea
  • Pamphagoidea Burmeister, 1840
Teratodes monticollis

Acridoidea is the largest superfamily of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera with over 11,000 species found on every continent except Antarctica.[2]

  1. ^ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").
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