{{Short description|Infraorder of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Hooded Grasshopper (Teratodus monticollis) W IMG 0525.jpg | image_caption = ''Teratodes monticollis'' (Acrididae) | taxon = Acrididea | authority = MacLeay, 1821<ref>MacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae'' or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").</ref><ref>Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. ''Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms'' '''2''': 371.</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Superfamily group and superfamily | subdivision = * Acridomorpha * Tetrigoidea | synonyms = }}
'''Acrididea''' including the '''Acridomorpha'''<ref>[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1100421 Orthoptera Species File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)]</ref> is an infraorder of insects that describe the '''grasshoppers''' (thus also locusts) and '''ground-hoppers'''. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea.<ref>[http://eol.org/pages/2634396/names Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)]</ref> Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms,<ref name = "Imms">Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.</ref> which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.
==Acridomorpha== The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following superfamilies: most families and species belong to the Acridoidea. *Acridoidea <small>(MacLeay, 1821)</small> *Eumastacoidea <small>Burr, 1899</small> ** Chorotypidae <small>Stål, 1873</small> ** Episactidae <small>Burr, 1899</small> ** Eumastacidae <small>Burr, 1899</small> ** Euschmidtiidae <small>Rehn, 1948</small> ** Mastacideidae <small>Rehn, 1948</small> ** Morabidae <small>Rehn, 1948</small> ** †Promastacidae <small>Kevan & Wighton, 1981</small> ** Thericleidae <small>Burr, 1899</small> *†Locustopsoidea <small>Handlirsch, 1906</small> ** †Bouretidae <small>Martins-Neto, 2001</small> ** †Eolocustopsidae <small>Riek, 1976</small> ** †Locustavidae <small>Sharov, 1968</small> ** †Locustopsidae <small>Handlirsch, 1906</small> *Pneumoroidea <small>Thunberg, 1810</small> — monotypic *Proscopioidea <small>Serville, 1838</small> — monotypic *Pyrgomorphoidea <small>Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874</small> — monotypic *Tanaoceroidea <small>Rehn, 1948</small> — monotypic *Trigonopterygoidea <small>Walker, 1870</small> ** Trigonopterygidae <small>Walker, 1870</small> ** Xyronotidae <small>Bolívar, 1909</small>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} *{{Wikispecies inline|Acrididea}}
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Category:Acrididea Category:Caelifera Category:Insect infraorders