Acridoidea

Acridoidea is a superfamily of grasshoppers including locusts in the order Orthoptera.

Classification

The following families are recognised: ^[1]

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Extant Orthoptera families

Suborder Ensifera

Grylloidea	Gryllidae (crickets) Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets) Mogoplistidae Myrmecophilidae (ant crickets)

Hagloidea	Prophalangopsidae (grigs)

Rhaphidophoroidea	Rhaphidophoridae (cave, camel and spider crickets; cave wetas)

Schizodactyloidea	Schizodactylidae (dune crickets or splay-footed crickets)

Stenopelmatoidea	Anostostomatidae (wetas, king crickets) Cooloolidae (Cooloola monster and relatives) Gryllacrididae (leaf-rolling crickets) Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem crickets)

Tettigonioidea	Tettigoniidae (katydids, bush-crickets or long-horned grasshoppers)

Acridoidea	Acrididae (grasshoppers, locusts) Catantopidae Charilaidae Dericorythidae Lathiceridae Lentulidae Lithidiidae Ommexechidae Pamphagidae (toad grasshoppers) Pyrgacrididae Romaleidae (lubber grasshoppers) Tristiridae

Eumastacoidea	Chorotypidae Episactidae Eumastacidae (monkey grasshoppers or matchstick grasshoppers) Euschmidtiidae Mastacideidae Morabidae Proscopiidae Thericleidae

Pneumoroidea	Pneumoridae (bladder grasshoppers)

Pyrgomorphoidea	Pyrgomorphidae (gaudy grasshoppers)

Tanaoceroidea	Tanaoceridae

Tetrigoidea	Tetrigidae (grouse locusts, pygmy locusts or groundhoppers)

Trigonopterygoidea	Trigonopterygidae Xyronotidae

Tridactylidea

Tridactyloidea	Cylindrachetidae (sandgropers) Ripipterygidae Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets)

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