The Egnatiinae are a subfamily of

grasshopper Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are amongst what are possibly the most ancient living groups of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grassh ...

s 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 because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedi ...

, found in central and South America, and based on the monotypic type genus '' Egnatius'' and erected by Bey-Bienko in 1951.Bey-Bienko G (1951) In: Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. 963 English translation no. 38 ''Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries'' 1: 364 91 Species have been recorded from parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, including Russia and China (but distribution may be incomplete).

Tribe and genera

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' includes:Orthoptera Species File
subfamily Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko, 1951 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 2 September 2022) ;tribe Egnatiini Bey-Bienko, 1951 # '' Bienkonia'' Dirsh, 1970 # '' Charora'' Saussure, 1888 # '' Egnatiella'' Bolívar, 1914 # '' Egnatioides'' Vosseler, 1902 # '' Egnatius'' Stål, 1876 # '' Ferganacris'' Sergeev & Bugrov, 1988 # '' Paracharora'' Fishelson, 1993 # '' Paregnatius'' Uvarov, 1933 ;Unassigned to tribe # '' Leptoscirtus'' Saussure, 1888

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* {{taxonbar, from = Q3049215 Orthoptera subfamilies Acrididae Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Asia