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Acrididae are the predominant family of , comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder . The Acrididae are best known because all (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily . Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae (so they may be called "short-horned grasshoppers"Borror, Donald J. and Richard E. White. A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1970. p. 78), and on the side of the first abdominal segment.

Subfamilies
The Orthoptera Species File (September 2021) lists the following subfamilies of Acrididae. The numbers of genera and species are approximate and may change over time.
  • MacLeay, 1821 (140 genera, 470 species), Worldwide: temperate and tropical
  • Jacobson, 1905 (12 genera, 90 species), Africa, Europe, Asia
  • Yin & Liu, 1987 (3 genera, 100 species), Africa, Asia
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (325 genera, 990 species), Africa, Asia ("spur-throated grasshoppers")
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (22 genera, 90 species), Central & South America
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 110 species), Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia
  • Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910 (38 genera, 170 species), Worldwide ("bird grasshoppers")
  • Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951 (30 species), Africa to central Asia
  • Dirsh, 1956 (5 species), North Africa
    • Krauss, 1902
    • Notopleura (grasshopper) Krauss, 1902
  • Dirsh, 1956 (23 genera, 80 species), Africa including Madagascar
  • Eyprepocnemidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (26 genera, 150 species), Africa, mainland Europe, Asia
  • Fieber, 1853 (192 genera, 1200 species), Worldwide
  • Yin, 1982 (15 species), China, Indochina
  • Dirsh, 1956 (45 genera, 180 species), Africa, Asia
  • Tinkham, 1940 (4 genera), East Asia
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (21 genera, 70 species), Central and South America
  • Marelliinae Eades, 2000 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
  • Scudder, 1897 (146 genera, 1100 species), Americas, Eurasia
  • Walker, 1871 (138 genera, 790 species), Worldwide
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (115 genera, 290 species), South America
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (33 genera, 210 species), Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia
  • Hebard, 1923 (monotypic, 1 species), South America
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (10 species), Europe, western Asia, Middle East
  • Amédégnato, 1974 (29 genera, 210 species), Central and South America
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (20 genera, 40 species), South America
  • Rehn, 1957 (single tribe, currently with 3 genera and 12 species), Africa, , Australia
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (8 genera, 20 species), Africa, southwest Asia
  • Jacobson, 1905 (13 genera, 30 species), Africa, southern Europe, Asia

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Tribe Descamps, 1975 - Central America
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  2. - monotypic E. rubripes Bruner, 1908
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  4. Descamps & Rowell, 1978 - monotypic L. fastigiata Descamps & Rowell, 1978
unplaced genera (all monotypic)

See also
  • List of Acrididae genera
  • List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe

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