The Coptacrinae are a subfamily of
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 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec ...
(originally described by Brunner von Wattenwyl under the synonym: Coptacrae) in the
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. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...
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Caelifera. Species can be found in Africa and Asia.
Genera
The Orthoptera Species File lists the following:
Orthoptera Species File: Coptacrinae (2 February 2018)
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* '' Apalacris'' Walker, 1870
* '' Bocagella'' Bolívar, 1889 - Africa
* '' Coptacra'' Stål, 1873 (type genus) - tropical Asia
* '' Coptacrella'' Bolívar, 1902 - India
* '' Coptacridia'' Ramme, 1941 - Eastern Himalayas
* '' Cyphocerastis'' Karsch, 1891 - equatorial Africa
* '' Ecphanthacris: E. mirabilis'' Tinkham, 1940 - eastern China
* '' Ecphymacris'' Bi, 1984: ''E. lofaoshana'' (Tinkham, 1940) - eastern China
* '' Epistaurus'' Bolívar, 1889 - Africa, India, Indo-China
* '' Eucoptacra'' Bolívar, 1902 - Africa, India, Indo-China, peninsular Malaysia, Borneo
* '' Eustaurus: E. tibialus'' Mahmood & Yousuf, 2000 - Pakistan
* '' Exochoderes'' Bolívar, 1882 - Angola
* '' Hintzia: H. squamiptera'' Ramme, 1929 - Cameroon
* '' Pamphagella'' Bruner, 1910 - Madagascar
* '' Paracoptacra'' Karsch, 1896 - equatorial Africa
* '' Parepistaurus'' Karsch, 1896 - central & southern Africa
* '' Physocrobylus'' Dirsh, 1951 - Tanzania
* '' Pirithoicus'' Uvarov, 1940 - India
* '' Poecilocerastis'' Ramme, 1929 - central Africa
* '' Pseudotraulia'' - monotypic - ''P, cornuata'' Laosinchai & Jago, 1980 - China, Thailand
* '' Rhopaloceracris'' Tinkham, 1940 - eastern China, Viet Nam
* '' Ruwenzoracris'' Rehn, 1914 - equatorial Africa
References
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Acrididae
Caelifera
Orthoptera subfamilies