Acrididae - Wikipedia
Acrididae 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 (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae.
Grasshoppers: The Family Acrididae - ThoughtCo
2019年8月1日 · With about 11,000 different species, the family Acrididae are noisy, foliage-loving insects that can be found just about anywhere there's grass.
Family Acrididae - Short-horned Grasshoppers - BugGuide.Net
2024年1月4日 · Medium to large, diurnal, typically in open habitat. Some are quite colorful. pronotum does not extend beyond base of wings. wings usually well-developed, but short (brachypterous) or absent (apterous) in some species, and wing length may be variable within a …
Acrididae - Animalia
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 (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae.
short-horned grasshopper - Encyclopedia Britannica
short-horned grasshopper, (family Acrididae), family of more than 10,000 species of insects, the largest group of grasshoppers. They are herbivorous and include some of the most destructive agricultural pests known. The plague, or migratory, species are called locusts.
Locust | Definition, Size, & Facts | Britannica
locust, (family Acrididae), any of a group of insects (order Orthoptera) that are distributed worldwide, the common name of which generally refers to the group of short-horned grasshoppers that often increase greatly in numbers and migrate long distances in destructive swarms.
Evolution, Diversification, and Biogeography of Grasshoppers ...
2018年7月24日 · We found that Acrididae originated in the Paleocene of the Cenozoic period (59.3 million years ago) and, because the separation of South America and Africa predates the origin of the family, we hypothesize that the current cosmopolitan distribution of Acrididae was largely achieved by dispersal.
Family Acrididae - Short-horned Grasshoppers - BugGuide.Net
Evolution, Diversification, and Biogeography of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Grasshopper | Description, Features, & Species | Britannica
The short-horned grasshopper (family Acrididae, formerly Locustidae) includes both inoffensive nonmigratory species and the often-destructive, swarming, migratory species known as locust. The meadow grasshopper and the cone-headed grasshopper are other examples of …
Evolution, Diversification, and Biogeography of Grasshoppers ...
2018年7月1日 · The grasshopper family Acrididae is one of the most diverse lineages within Orthoptera, including more than 6,700 valid species distributed worldwide.