Acridoidea

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo: Orthoptera
Subordo: Caelifera
Infraordo: Acrididea
Superfamilia: Acridoidea
Familiae (11): Acrididae - Dericorythidae - Lathiceridae - Lentulidae - Lithidiidae - Ommexechidae - Pamphagidae - Pamphagodidae - Pyrgacrididae - Romaleidae - Tristiridae

Name

Acridoidea MacLeay, 1819

References

Macleay, W.S. 1819. Horae entomologicae: or essays on the annulose animals. Containing geneal observations on the geography, manners, and natural affinities of the Insects which compose the genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental remarks on the genera Lucanus and Hister of the same author. With an appendix and plates. Vol. 1. Part 1. London: S. Bagster, xxx + [2] + 160 pp., 3 pls. BHL Reference page.
Barker, J.F. 1984: Preliminary list of the grasshoppers (Acridoidea) found in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Koedoe, 27: 1–4. [not seen]
Barker, J.F. 1985: The distribution of Acridoidea (grasshoppers) in relation to overgrazing. Botswana notes and records, 17: 141–148.
Barker, J.F. 1993: Distribution patterns of Kalahari Desert Acridoidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera). African entomology, 1(1): 81–91. pdf of whole volume
Chen, L-P., Chang, Y-G., Li, J., Wang, J-M., Liu, J-L., Zhi, Y-C. & Li, X-J. 2018. Application of DNA Barcoding in the Classification of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acridoidea)—A Case Study of grasshoppers from Hebei Province, China. Zootaxa 4497(1): 99–110. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.1.6 Reference page.
Dirsh, V.M. 1965: The African genera of Acridoidea.
Dong, L-J., Shi, J-P., Zhang, X-H., Zhang, Y-L., Li, X-J. & Yin, H. 2015. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Acridoidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit sequences. Zootaxa 4018(3): 411–425. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.3.5. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Labadessa, R. 2014: Updated list and community structure of Tettigonioidea and Acridoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera) of the Alta Murgia plateau (Italy). Zootaxa 3755(6): 549–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.6.2 Reference page.
Massa, B. 2020. Remarks on some interesting African Pamphagidae and Acrididae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Zootaxa 4751(1): 29–54. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.2 Reference page.

Links

Acridoidea – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Heuschrecke
magyar: Sáskák
日本語: バッタ上科
русский: Саранчовые

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