The Caryandinae are a small subfamily of
grasshopper
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Grasshopp ...
s found mostly in China, India,
Indochina
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...
and
Malesia
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, but the large type genus ''
Caryanda
Caryanda or Karyanda ( grc, Καρυάνδα) was a city on the coast of ancient Caria in southwestern Anatolia. Stephanus of Byzantium describes it as a city and harbour (λίμην) near Myndus and Cos. But λιμήν, in the text of Stephanu ...
'' also has species from Africa.
[ Genera were previously placed in the ]tribe
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Oxyini
Oxyini is one of two tribes of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oxyinae. Some genera previously listed here are now placed in the subfamilies Caryandinae
The Caryandinae are a small subfamily of grasshoppers found mostly in China, India, Indochi ...
, with the subfamily erected by Yin & Liu in 1987.
Genera
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (retrieved 7 January 2023)]
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# ''Caryanda
Caryanda or Karyanda ( grc, Καρυάνδα) was a city on the coast of ancient Caria in southwestern Anatolia. Stephanus of Byzantium describes it as a city and harbour (λίμην) near Myndus and Cos. But λιμήν, in the text of Stephanu ...
'' Stål, 1878
# ''Cercina
Cercina () is a ''frazione'' (rural borough) of the municipality of Sesto Fiorentino, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, central Italy, located on the slopes of Mount Morello
Monte Morello is the highest mountain (934 m.) in the Flore ...
'' Stål, 1878
# ''Lemba'' Huang, 1983;[ Huang C (1983) ''Zool. Res.'' 4(2): 149.] current records from southern China, species:
## '' Lemba bituberculata'' Yin & Liu, 1987
## '' Lemba daguanensis'' Huang, 1983 - type species
## '' Lemba guizhouensis'' Yin, Zhang & You, 2013
## '' Lemba motinagar'' Ingrisch, Willemse & Shishodia, 2004
## '' Lemba sichuanensis'' Ma, Guo & Li, 1994
## '' Lemba sinensis'' (Chang, 1939)
## '' Lemba viriditibia'' Niu & Zheng, 1992
## '' Lemba wushanensis'' Yin, Shen & Yin, 2020
## '' Lemba yunnana'' Ma & Zheng, 1994
## '' Lemba zhengi'' Li, 1994
References
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Orthoptera subfamilies
Orthoptera of Asia
Acrididae