Acrididea including the Acridomorpha is an

infraorder Order () is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between Family_(biology), family and Class_(biology), class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classific ...

of insects that describe the

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

s (thus also

locust Locusts (derived from the Latin ''locusta'', locust or lobster) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances they b ...

s) and ground-hoppers. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea.Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
/ref> Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms,Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp. which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (

Acrididae 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. The subfamily Oedi ...

). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.

Acridomorpha

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following superfamilies: most families and species belong to the Acridoidea. * Acridoidea (MacLeay, 1821) * Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899 ** Chorotypidae Stål, 1873 ** Episactidae Burr, 1899 ** Eumastacidae Burr, 1899 ** Euschmidtiidae Rehn, 1948 ** Mastacideidae Rehn, 1948 ** Morabidae Rehn, 1948 ** † Promastacidae Kevan & Wighton, 1981 **

Thericleidae The Thericleidae are a family of grasshoppers within the order Orthoptera and superfamily Eumastacoidea. They have exceptionally stubby antennae even for the Caelifera, with most species having a characteristic "horse-headed" look in profile. ...

Burr, 1899 *†Locustopsoidea Handlirsch, 1906 ** † Bouretidae Martins-Neto, 2001 ** † Eolocustopsidae Riek, 1976 ** † Locustavidae Sharov, 1968 ** † Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906 * Pneumoroidea Thunberg, 1810 —

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

* Proscopioidea Serville, 1838 — monotypic * Pyrgomorphoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874 — monotypic * Tanaoceroidea Rehn, 1948 — monotypic * Trigonopterygoidea Walker, 1870 ** Trigonopterygidae Walker, 1870 ** Xyronotidae Bolívar, 1909

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q20857752 Caelifera Insect infraorders