Acrididae, commonly called short-horned grasshoppers, 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 are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.
The subfamily Catantopinae is a group of insects classified under family Acrididae. Genera such as Macrotona may sometimes called "spur-throated grasshoppers", but that name is also used for grasshoppers from other subfamilies, including the genus Melanoplus from the Melanoplinae.
The grasshopper subfamily Acridinae, sometimes called silent slant-faced grasshoppers, belong of the large family Acrididae in the Orthoptera: Caelifera.
Chorthippus is a large genus of acridid grasshoppers with around 230 described species. The genus may be subdivided into subgenera including: Altichorthippus, Chorthippus and Glyptobothrus, with other species not placed.
The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve tribes.
Stenobothrus is a genus of grasshoppers found in Asia, Europe, and North Africa.
Gomphocerinae, sometimes called "slant-faced grasshoppers", are a subfamily of grasshoppers found on every continent but Antarctica and Australia.
Platycleis is a genus of bush crickets described by Fieber in 1853, belonging to the subfamily Tettigoniinae. The species of this genus are present in Europe, North Africa and temperate Asia.
Euchorthippus is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers belonging to the family Acrididae and the subfamily Gomphocerinae. Species are recorded from Europe and temperate Asia.
Omocestus is a genus of 'short-horned grasshoppers' belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Gomphocerinae.
Podismini is a tribe of "spur-throated grasshoppers" in the family Acrididae. This tribe is unlike others in the subfamily Melanoplinae in that genera are found throughout the northern hemisphere, with a substantial number occurring outside the Americas.
Nocarodes is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Pamphagidae. There are at least 20 described species in Nocarodes, found in southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia.
Conophyma is the type genus of grasshoppers of the subfamily Conophyminae and tribe Conophymini. Species are recorded from central Asia.
Podismopsis is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae and tribe Chrysochraontini, erected by Zubovski in 1900. Species have been recorded from central Europe through to temperate east Asia, including Japan.
Mesasippus is a genus of grasshoppers in the tribe Gomphocerini, erected by Yu S, Tarbinsky in 1931. Species have been recorded from eastern Europe through to central China.
Nocaracris is a genus of European and western Asian grasshoppers in the family Pamphagidae, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1928. It is the type genus of the tribe Nocarodeini and has a recorded distribution of Greece through to Afghanistan, but this may be incomplete.
Glyphotmethis is a genus of mostly European grasshoppers belonging to the family Pamphagidae, erected by Bey-Bienko in 1951. Belonging to the tribe Thrinchini, species can be found in south-eastern Europe through to Turkey.
Duroniella is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Phlaeobini and now placed in genus group Duronia, erected by Ignacio Bolívar in 1908. Distribution records include: the North and Horn of Africa, Sardinia, Greece and the Balkans, through to central Asia.
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