{{short description|Tribe of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Acrida Conica.jpg | image_caption = ''Acrida conica'' | taxon = Acridini | authority = MacLeay, 1821 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text | synonyms = Acridia MacLeay, 1821 }}
'''Acridini'''<ref>MacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2.</ref> is a tribe of insects in the subfamily Acridinae, of the insect family Acrididae and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers"{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}. It was firstly described as ''Truxalis Conicus'' in 1781<ref>{{Cite web|title=species Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781): Orthoptera Species File|url=http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1111365|access-date=2021-09-14|website=orthoptera.speciesfile.org}}</ref>
==Description== Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nayyar Azim |first=M. |author2=Reshi, S. A. |title=TAXONOMIC NOTES ON THE TRIBE ACRIDINI LATREILLE (ACRIDINAE: ACRIDIDAE: ORTHOPTERA) OF KASHMIR, INDIA |journal=Acta Zoológica Mexicana |series=Nueva Serie |date=April 2010 |volume=26 |pages=219–222 |url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/575/57512379015.pdf |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221054042/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=57512379015 |url-status=live |archive-date=2013-02-21 |accessdate=30 August 2012 |publisher=Instituto de Ecología }}</ref>
==Genera== This tribe includes several monotypic Australian genera; the ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists:.<ref>[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1111341 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 16 December 2018)]</ref> * ''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 thumb|right|''Cryptobothrus chrysophorus'' * ''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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Category:Acrididae Category:Orthoptera tribes Category:Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille