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Acrididae

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MacLeay. 1821. Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals, S. Bagster, London 2
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Orthoptera
family
Acrididae

Name

Synonyms
Acridiidae
Acrydium barthelemyi Hope, 1848
Arcypteridae
Catantopidae
Gomphocerus abstrusus Scudder, 1890
Nanthacia torpida Scudder, 1890
Oedipoda longipennis Pongrácz, 1928
Oedipoda partschi Pongrácz, 1928
Oedipoda praefocata Scudder, 1890
Oedipoda pulchra Pongrácz, 1928
Oedipoda saussurei Theobald, 1937
Oedipodidae
Pardalophora hungarica Pongrácz, 1928
Tryxalis kudiana Cockerell, 1927
Homonyms
Acrididae
Common names
Feldheuschrecken in German
echte veldsprinkhanen in Dutch
grasshoppers in English
grasshoppers in English
short-horned grasshopper in English
short-horned grasshoppers in language.
short-horned grasshoppers in English
grasshoppers in English
markgräshoppor in Swedish
veldsprinkhanen in Dutch

Bibliographic References

  1. Bellmann & Luquet. 1995. Guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale, Delachaux et Niestle, Lausanne 230-353
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  4. Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova) 2 13(33):132
  5. Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 255-449
  6. Cantrall & Brusven. 1996. In Merritt, R.W. & Cummins [Ed.]. Semiaquatic Orthoptera. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, 3rd edition, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 214
  7. Chapman, R.F. 1989. Comments on the proposed order of precedence of the family-group names Acrididae, Oedipodidae and Locustidae (Insecta, Orthoptera)(1). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 46(1):42
  8. Cigliano & Morrone. 2000. Cladistic methods to analyze adaptation. Folia Entomológica Mexicana (Folia Ent. Mex.) 110:113-124
  9. Coray & A.W. Lehmann. 1998. Taxonomie der Heuschrecken Deutschlands (Orthoptera): Formale Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Namen. Articulata Beiheft 7:99
  10. Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):224
  11. Dirsh. 1961. A preliminary revision of the families and subfamilies of Acridoidea (Orthoptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent.) 10(9):386
  12. Fieber. 1844. Entomologische Monographien 137 pp., 10 pls.
  13. Filipenko, Timofeeva, Gusachenko, Sergeev & Vysotskaya. 2000. Reconstruction of the phylogeny of grasshoppers from the family Acrididae (Orthoptera) based on the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence. Genetika 36(10):1355-1361
  14. Hebard. 1934. The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History (Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist.) 20:125-279
  15. Huo, G., G. Jiang, Z. Sun, D. Liu, Yalin Zhang & L. Lu. 2007. Phylogenetic reconstruction of the family Acrypteridae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Journal of Genetics and Genomics (JGG) 34:303
  16. Johnsen. 1991. Acrididae: Truxalinae & Gomphocerinae. The Acridoidea of Botswana (Acridoidea of Botswana) 3:285-372
  17. Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Orthoptera. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, McGraw-Hill Book Company 2:376
  18. Key. 1988. Case 2568. Acrididae Karny, 1907, Oedipodidae Walker, 1870 and Locustidae Latreille, 1802 (Insecta, Orthoptera): proposed order of precedence. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature (Bull. Zool. Nomencl.) 45(3):191-193
  19. Kirby, W. 1825. Some remarks on the nomenclature of the Gryllina of MacLeay, with the characters of a new genus in that tribe. Zoological Journal (Zool. J.) 1:429-432
  20. Krauss. 1890. Erklärung der Orthopteren-Tafeln J. C. Savigny's in der "Description de l'Égypte". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 40:270
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