Caryandinae Explained

The Caryandinae are a small subfamily of grasshoppers found mostly in China, India, Indochina and Malesia, but the large type genus Caryanda also has species from Africa. Genera were previously placed in the tribe Oxyini, with the subfamily erected by Yin & Liu in 1987.^[1]

Genera

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] includes:

1. Caryanda Stål, 1878
2. Cercina Stål, 1878
3. Lemba Huang, 1983;^[3] current records from southern China, species:
   1. Lemba bituberculata Yin & Liu, 1987
   2. Lemba daguanensis Huang, 1983 - type species
   3. Lemba guizhouensis Yin, Zhang & You, 2013
   4. Lemba motinagar Ingrisch, Willemse & Shishodia, 2004
   5. Lemba sichuanensis Ma, Guo & Li, 1994
   6. Lemba sinensis (Chang, 1939)
   7. Lemba viriditibia Niu & Zheng, 1992
   8. Lemba wushanensis Yin, Shen & Yin, 2020
   9. Lemba yunnana Ma & Zheng, 1994
   10. Lemba zhengi Li, 1994

Notes and References

1. Yin X-C, Z-W Liu (1987) Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 12(1): 67 [72].
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1114419 Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (retrieved 7 January 2023)
3. Huang C (1983) Zool. Res. 4(2): 149.