Acridini Explained

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

• 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

Notes and References

1. MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
2. Web site: species Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781): Orthoptera Species File. 2021-09-14. orthoptera.speciesfile.org.
3. Nayyar Azim . M. . Reshi, S. A. . TAXONOMIC NOTES ON THE TRIBE ACRIDINI LATREILLE (ACRIDINAE: ACRIDIDAE: ORTHOPTERA) OF KASHMIR, INDIA . Acta Zoológica Mexicana . Nueva Serie . April 2010 . 26 . 219–222 . https://archive.today/20130221054042/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=57512379015 . live . 2013-02-21 . 30 August 2012 . Instituto de Ecología .
4. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1111341 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)