The Caryandinae are a small subfamily of grasshoppers found mostly in China, India,

Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

and

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, but the large type genus ''

Caryanda Caryanda or Karyanda ( grc, Καρυάνδα) was a city on the coast of ancient Caria in southwestern Anatolia. Stephanus of Byzantium describes it as a city and harbour (λίμην) near Myndus and Cos. But λιμήν, in the text of Stephanus ...

'' also has species from Africa. Genera were previously placed in the

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Oxyini, with the subfamily erected by Yin & Liu in 1987.

Genera

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (retrieved 7 January 2023)
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'' Stål, 1878 # ''

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'' Stål, 1878 # ''Lemba'' Huang, 1983; Huang C (1983) ''Zool. Res.'' 4(2): 149. current records from southern China, species: ## '' Lemba bituberculata'' Yin & Liu, 1987 ## '' Lemba daguanensis'' Huang, 1983 - type species ## '' Lemba guizhouensis'' Yin, Zhang & You, 2013 ## '' Lemba motinagar'' Ingrisch, Willemse & Shishodia, 2004 ## '' Lemba sichuanensis'' Ma, Guo & Li, 1994 ## '' Lemba sinensis'' (Chang, 1939) ## ''

Lemba viriditibia Lemba may refer to: * Lemba (grasshopper), ''Lemba'' (grasshopper), a genus of insect in the subfamily Caryandinae * Lemba people, an African ethnic group in Southern Africa ;Places * Lemba, Kinshasa, a commune in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of t ...

'' Niu & Zheng, 1992 ## '' Lemba wushanensis'' Yin, Shen & Yin, 2020 ## '' Lemba yunnana'' Ma & Zheng, 1994 ## '' Lemba zhengi'' Li, 1994

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from= Q116058107 Orthoptera subfamilies Orthoptera of Asia Acrididae