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Grasshoppers
Acrididea
Acrididea including the Acridomorpha is an infraorder of insects that best describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) or grasshopper-like families. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea (ground-hoppers). Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms, which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.
8 branches of this group, most-observed first
Short-horned Grasshoppers and Locusts
superfamilyAcridoidea
Pyrgomorphoidea
superfamilyPyrgomorphoidea
Pygmy Grasshopper Superfamily
superfamilyTetrigoidea
Eumastacoid Stick Grasshoppers
superfamilyEumastacoidea
Proscopioid Stick Grasshoppers
superfamilyProscopioidea
Pneumoroidea
superfamilyPneumoroidea
leaf grasshoppers
superfamilyTrigonopterygoidea
desert long-horned grasshoppers
superfamilyTanaoceroidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 700600.