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iAcrididae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Orthoptera Suborder: Caelifera Superfamily: Acridoidea Family: Acrididae MacLeay, 1819
Genera
Subfamily: Acridinae Acrida Orthochtha Subfamily: Calliptaminae Acorypha Calliptamus Subfamily: Catantopinae Bettotania Catantops Stenocrobylus Striatosedulia Subfamily: Copiocerinae Chlorohippus Monachidium Subfamily: Coptacrinae Epistaurus Eucoptacra Subfamily: Cyrtacanthacridinae Austracris Nomadacris Schistocerca Valanga Subfamily: Egnatiinae Egnatius Leptoscirtus Subfamily: Eremogryllinae Eremogryllus Notopleura Subfamily: Euryphyminae Acrophymus Phymeurus Subfamily: Eyprepocnemidinae Eyprepocnemis Heteracris Subfamily: Gomphocerinae Chorthippus Dociostaurus Paragonista Subfamily: Habrocneminae Habrocnemis Subfamily: Hemiacridinae Hemiacris Hieroglyphodes Subfamily: Leptysminae Subfamily: Marelliinae Subfamily: Melanoplinae Subfamily: Oedipodinae Chortoicetes Locusta Oedipoda Subfamily: Ommatolampinae Subfamily: Oxyinae Oxya Oxycrobylus Praxibulus Subfamily: Pauliniinae Subfamily: Proctolabinae Subfamily: Rhytidochrotinae Subfamily: Spathosterninae Subfamily: Teratodinae Subfamily: Tropidopolinae Afroxyrrhepes Tristria

The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae.

[edit] Taxonomy note

Subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as family Oedipodidae, in the superfamily Acridoidea.

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