Acridini

Acridini
Acrida conica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Acridinae
Tribe: Acridini
MacLeay, 1821
Genera

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Synonyms

Acridia MacLeay, 1821

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

Description

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

Genera

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

Cryptobothrus chrysophorus

References

  1. ↑ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2.
  2. ↑ "species Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781): Orthoptera Species File". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  3. ↑ 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. 26. Instituto de Ecología: 219–222. Retrieved 30 August 2012.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)