Acrididea including the Acridomorpha is an
infraorder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
of insects that describe the
grasshoppers (thus also
locust
Locusts (derived from the Vulgar Latin ''locusta'', meaning grasshopper) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumst ...
s) 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.
Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
/ref> Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms
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,[Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.] which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level ( Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.
Acridomorpha
The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following superfamilies: most families and species belong to the Acridoidea.
* Acridoidea (MacLeay, 1821)
* Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899
** Chorotypidae
Chorotypidae is a family of tropical Asian grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to ...
Stål, 1873
** Episactidae
Episactidae is a family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā ...
Burr, 1899
** Eumastacidae
Eumastacidae are a family of grasshoppers sometimes known as monkey- or matchstick grasshoppers. They usually have thin legs that are held folded at right angles to the body, sometimes close to the horizontal plane. Many species are wingless and ...
Burr, 1899
** Euschmidtiidae Rehn, 1948
** Mastacideidae
Mastacideidae is a family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera. There are at least two genera and about eight described species in Mastacideidae, found in South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in bot ...
Rehn, 1948
** Morabidae
Morabidae is a family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera. There are more than 40 genera and 120 described species in Morabidae, found in Australasia.
Genera
These 42 genera belong to the family Morabidae:
* '' Achuraba'' Key, 1976
* '' Ac ...
Rehn, 1948
** † Promastacidae Kevan & Wighton, 1981
** Thericleidae
The Thericleidae are a family of grasshoppers within the Order (biology), order Orthoptera and superfamily Eumastacoidea. They have exceptionally stubby antennae even for the Caelifera, with most species have a characteristic "horse-headed" look ...
Burr, 1899
*†Locustopsoidea Handlirsch, 1906
** †Bouretidae
Bouretidae is an extinct family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids an ...
Martins-Neto, 2001
** †Eolocustopsidae
Eolocustopsidae is an extinct family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydi ...
Riek, 1976
** † Locustavidae Sharov, 1968
** † Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906
* Pneumoroidea Thunberg, 1810 (monotypic)
* Proscopioidea Serville, 1838 (monotypic)
* Pyrgomorphoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874 (monotypic)
* Tanaoceroidea Rehn, 1948 (monotypic)
* Trigonopterygoidea Walker, 1870
** Trigonopterygidae Walker, 1870
** Xyronotidae
Xyronotidae is a family of Central American grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or ka ...
Bolívar, 1909
References
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Caelifera
Insect infraorders