AcridiniMacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals 2. 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
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:.Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018) 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
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