Chininae is a subfamily of Asian

grasshopper Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grasshopp ...

s in the family

Chorotypidae Chorotypidae is a family of tropical Asian grasshoppers Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to ...

based on the type genus ''

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

''. There are currently two known genera and about nine described species, found in southern China and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

. The subfamily was first formally erected in 1899.Burr M (1899) ''An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat.'' 28:94, 256.

Genera

These two genera belong to the subfamily Chininae: * ''

'' Burr, 1899 - monotypic ''China mantispoides'' from China and

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 ...

* '' Eupatrides'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 -

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q21213567 Chorotypidae Orthoptera of Asia