Acridini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Orthoptera
Subordo: Caelifera
Infraordo: Acrididea
Superfamilia: Acridoidea

Familia: Acrididae
Subfamilia: Acridinae
Tribus: Acridini
Genera: Acrida - Acridarachnea – Caledia – Calephorops – Cryptobothrus – Froggattina – Perala – Rapsilla – Schizobothrus
Name

Acridini MacLeay, 1821
Synonyms

Acridia MacLeay, 1821

References

Orthoptera Species File Online

Acridini[1] is a tribe of insects in the subfamily Acridinae, of the insect family Acrididae and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers" . It was firstly described as Truxalis Conicus in 1781[2]

Description

Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.[3]
Genera

This tribe includes several monotypic Australian genera; the Orthoptera Species File lists:.[4]

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

Cryptobothrus chrysophorus

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

MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
"species Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781): Orthoptera Species File". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
Nayyar Azim, M.; Reshi, S. A. (April 2010). "TAXONOMIC NOTES ON THE TRIBE ACRIDINI LATREILLE (ACRIDINAE: ACRIDIDAE: ORTHOPTERA) OF KASHMIR, INDIA" (PDF). Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie). Instituto de Ecología. 26: 219–222. Archived from the original on 2013-02-21. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)