Acrididae
Author: Christiaan Kooyman
Source: Wikimedia Commons
| Vernacular names | |
|---|---|
| • Deutsch: | Feldheuschrecken |
| • English: | locusts and relatives short-horned grasshoppers |
| • Español: | acrídidos langostas |
| • Français: | acridiens acrididés criquets |
Acrididae (locusts and relatives)
This family of short-horned grasshoppers includes more than 5,000 species. The antennae are shorter than the body. Females do not have a long ovipositor. They excavate a hole in the ground and deposit 30-100 eggs together with a fluid which hardens and forms an egg pod. Males stridulate during the day by rubbing the inner side of the hind femora (which has a row of projections) against the closed forewings, producing a buzzing sound.
The Acrididae includes the swarm forming (gregarizing) locusts. Some species found in tropical and subtropical regions are notoriously destructive.
For beneficial Acrididae see the Acrididae (weed bioagents).
The following genera and individual species are currently entered under Acrididae:
- Acrotylus (genus)
- Ageneotettix deorum
- Aiolopus (genus)
- Amphitornus coloradus
- Anacridium (genus)
- Aulocara (genus)
- Austracris guttulosa
- Calliptamus (genus)
- Camnula pellucida
- Chorthippus (genus)
- Chortoicetes terminifera
- Dichroplus (genus)
- Dociostaurus maroccanus
- Eyprepocnemis (genus)
- Hesperotettix viridis
- Hieroglyphus (genus)
- Kraussaria angulifera
- Locusta migratoria
- Locustana pardalina
- Melanoplus (genus)
- Nomadacris septemfasciata
- Oedaleonotus enigma
- Oedaleus (genus)
- Oxya (genus)
- Patanga succincta
- Phaulacridium vittatum
- Phoetaliotes nebrascensis
- Rhammatocerus (genus)
- Schistocerca (genus)
- Trachyrhachys kiowa
