Acridini 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:.
- Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 (widespread in Old World & Australasia)
- Acridarachnea BolÃÂvar, 1908 (Africa) monotypic:
- Acridarachnea ophthalmica BolÃÂvar, 1908
- Caledia BolÃÂvar, 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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