Acrolophitini is a small
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
of
grasshoppers within the subfamily
Gomphocerinae
Gomphocerinae, sometimes called "slant-faced grasshoppers", are a subfamily of grasshoppers found on every continent but Antarctica and Australia.
Tribes and genera
Tribes and genera include:
Arcypterini
Auth.: Bolívar, 1914 - Africa, Palearc ...
from western North America.
[ , there are two genera and six species in the tribe Acrolophitini.][
*'']Acrolophitus
''Acrolophitus'' is a genus of North American grasshoppers in the family Acrididae.
Species include: '' Thomas, 1871 (4 species)
*''Bootettix
''Bootettix'' is a genus of slant-faced grasshoppers in the family Acrididae
The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 1 ...
'' Bruner, 1889 (2 species)
References
Gomphocerinae
Orthoptera tribes
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