Acridini is a

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of insects in the

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Acridinae The grasshopper subfamily Acridinae, sometimes called silent slant-faced grasshoppers, belong of the large Family (biology), family Acrididae in the Orthoptera: Caelifera. Description In appearance, the species are often similar to those of the ...

, of the

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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 Oedi ...

and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers". It was firstly described as ''Truxalis Conicus'' in 1781

Description

Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack

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pegs and are silent.

Genera

This tribe includes several

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n genera; the ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists:.Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)
/ref> * '' Acrida'' Linnaeus, 1758 (widespread in Old World & Australasia) * '' Acridarachnea'' Bolívar, 1908 (Africa) monotypic: ** '' Acridarachnea ophthalmica'' Bolívar, 1908 * '' Caledia'' Bolívar, 1914 (Australia) monotypic: ** '' Caledia captiva'' (Fabricius, 1775) * '' Calephorops'' Sjöstedt, 1920 (Australia) monotypic: ** '' Calephorops viridis'' Sjöstedt, 1920 * ''

Cryptobothrus ''Cryptobothrus'' is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family 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 ...

'' Rehn, 1907 (Australia, synonyms ''Austrobothrus'' Sjöstedt, 1921, ''Exobothrus'' Sjöstedt, 1936) monotypic: ** '' Cryptobothrus chrysophorus'' Rehn, 1907 Sydney 055

* '' Froggattina'' Tillyard, 1926 (Australia) monotypic: ** '' Froggattina australis'' (Walker, 1870) * '' Keshava (insect)'' Gupta & Chandra, 2017 (India) ** '' Keshava barnawaparensis'' Gupta & Chandra, 2017 ** '' Keshava jugadensis'' Gupta & Chandra, 2017 ** '' Keshava shishodensis'' Gupta & Chandra, 2017 * '' Perala'' Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic: ** '' Perala viridis'' Sjöstedt, 1921 * '' Rapsilla'' Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic: ** '' Rapsilla fusca'' Sjöstedt, 1921 * '' Schizobothrus'' Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic: ** '' Schizobothrus flavovittatus'' Sjöstedt, 1921

References

External links

* {{taxonbar, from=Q481975 Acrididae Orthoptera tribes Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille