The Lithidiidae are a family of

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 ...

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Orthoptera Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...

: suborder

Caelifera The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea). ...

. Species in this family can be found in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

Genera

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File
(31 March 2010) lists: * '' Eneremius'' Saussure, 1888 * '' Lithidiopsis'' Dirsh, 1956 * '' Lithidium'' Uvarov, 1925 * '' Microtmethis'' Karny, 1910

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ITIS: ''Lithidiidae''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3256550 Caelifera Orthoptera families