Published January 12, 2026
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Acridoidea MacLeay 1821
Authors/Creators
- 1. College of Life Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shananxi, China & Zoological and Botanical Museum, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
Description
Superfamily Acridoidea MacLeay, 1821
Acridoidea belongs to Orthoptera and is the largest superfamily within Caelifera, as well as the most diverse group within it. Acridoidea comprises 11 families: Acrididae, Dericorythidae, Lathiceridae, Lentulidae, Lithidiidae; Ommexechidae; Pamphagidae; Pamphagodidae; Pyrgacrididae; Romaleidae; Tristiridae) comprising 45 subfamilies (Song et al., 2018), To date, a total of 8,301 valid species have been recorded worldwide (By September 26, 2025). https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/.
Notes
Published as part of Yin, Xiongyan, Yang, Lu, Ji, Yonghao, Gan, Lijia, Li, Xiaoyu, Liu, Xuanzeng, Lin, Liliang & Huang, Yuan, 2026, Illustrated catalogue of type specimens of Acridoidea and Pyrgomorphoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the collection of Shaanxi Normal University, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 5748 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5748.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19167238
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- MacLeay
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Taxon rank
- superFamily
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acridoidea MacLeay, 1821 sec. Yin, Yang, Ji, Gan, Li, Liu, Lin & Huang, 2026
References
- Song, H. J., Marino-Perez, R., Woller, D. A., Cigliano, M. M. J. I. S. & Diversity (2018) Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Diversity, 2 (4), 3. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixy008