Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers, are the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers classified under the family Acrididae. They have a worldwide distribution and were originally elevated to full family status as the Oedipodidae. Many species primarily inhabit xeric weedy fields, and some are considered to be important locusts:
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.
Antaxius is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini found in Europe.
Chrysochraontini is a tribe of grasshoppers belonging to the subfamily Gomphocerinae.
Pamphagidae is a family of grasshoppers belonging to the superfamily Acridoidea. The species in this family can be found in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Stethophyma is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, with species found in Europe, North America and Japan.
Pseudomogoplistes squamiger, the scaly cricket, is a species of apterous cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. Long known in the genus Mogoplistes it was placed this genus, for which it became the type species, by AV Gorochov in 1984.
Pseudomogoplistes is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae, erected by AV Gorochov in 1984. The recorded distribution of species is Europe and North Africa.
Dociostaurus is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, subfamily Gomphocerinae and typical of the tribe Dociostaurini. Species are found in Africa, southern Europe and Asia, and includes the economically important Moroccan locust.
Chrysochraon is a genus of grasshoppers in the tribe Chrysochraontini within the subfamily Gomphocerinae. They are found mostly in mainland Europe from the Pyrenees to Russia.
Cyrtaspis is a genus of bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini within the subfamily Meconematinae. They are found in mainland Western Europe and North Africa.
Poecilimon is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae and tribe Barbitistini. Species can be found in: central and Southeast Europe, the south of the European part of the former USSR, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, the Caucasus, Persia and extends in Central Asia to the Altai mountains.
Uromenus is a genus of bush crickets in the sub-family Bradyporinae and tribe Ephippigerini.
Thrinchinae is a subfamily of grasshoppers, with genus found in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Paracinema tricolor is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
Brachycrotaphus is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae, erected by Hermann August Krauss in 1877. Species have been recorded from Africa, southern Europe and India.
Psorodonotus is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Pholidopterini, erected by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1861.
Cophopodisma is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Podismini and subtribe Miramellina, erected by D.P. Dovnar-Zapolskij in 1932. Species records have a highly disjointed distribution, with two species from Spain and France and C. yunnanea from China.
