Acrididae, MacLeay, 1821

Sultana, Riffat & Song, Hojun, 2024, Annotated catalogue of Pakistani Acrididae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea), Zootaxa 5486 (1), pp. 1-47 : 11

Family Acrididae

Fourteen subfamilies of Acrididae were studied. As a result of extensive surveys in Pakistan including its two adjacent territories, a total of 1,242 specimens were collected. Of the 169 species (including subspecies) of Acrididae belonging to 14 subfamilies, 29 tribes and 66 genera with distinct species counts, the subfamily Oedipodinae stands out as the largest subfamily, including 56 species. Gomphocerinae follows closely with 30 species, while Acridinae and Calliptaminae include 15 species and 12 species, respectively. Eyprepocnemidinae comes next with 12 species, Hemiacridinae with 10 species, and Oxyinae is represented by 9 species. Cyrtacanthacridinae is represented by 8 species, followed by Catantopinae with 7 species while Tropidopolinae and Teratodinae each includes 3 species. Spathosterninae includes 2 species, and Coptacrinae and Melanoplinae are each represented by a single species ( Table.1 ). Among them, three were endemic species, 11 rare species, and seven species, e.g., Hieroglyphus concolor , Oxyina javana , O. sinobidentata , Oxya nitidula , Sphodromerus undulatus pedestris , Scintharista notabilis cinctipes , and Oedipoda fedtschenki fedtschenki are new records in the inventory of Pakistan, including five expected species and 18 with a debatable taxonomic position that were also known while the 12 taxa are currently in the process of identification and are not presented here.