Acridini
# Acridini

Acridini is a tribe of insects in the subfamily Acridinae, of the insect family Acrididae and are sometimes called "silent slant-faced grasshoppers". It was firstly described as Truxalis Conicus in 1781

## Description

Insects of this tribe are usually slender and like other members of the subfamily Acridinae lack stridulatory pegs and are silent.

## Genera

This tribe includes several monotypic Australian genera; the Orthoptera Species File lists:.

* Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 (widespread in Old World & Australasia)
* Acridarachnea Bolívar, 1908 (Africa) monotypic:
   * Acridarachnea ophthalmica Bolívar, 1908
* Caledia Bolívar, 1914 (Australia) monotypic:
   * Caledia captiva (Fabricius, 1775)
* Calephorops Sjöstedt, 1920 (Australia) monotypic:
   * Calephorops viridis Sjöstedt, 1920
* Cryptobothrus Rehn, 1907 (Australia, synonyms Austrobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921, Exobothrus Sjöstedt, 1936) monotypic:
   * Cryptobothrus chrysophorus Rehn, 1907
* Froggattina Tillyard, 1926 (Australia) monotypic:
   * Froggattina australis (Walker, 1870)
* Keshava (insect) Gupta & Chandra, 2017 (India)
   * Keshava barnawaparensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
   * Keshava jugadensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
   * Keshava shishodensis Gupta & Chandra, 2017
* Perala Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
   * Perala viridis Sjöstedt, 1921
* Rapsilla Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
   * Rapsilla fusca Sjöstedt, 1921
* Schizobothrus Sjöstedt, 1921 (Australia) monotypic:
   * Schizobothrus flavovittatus Sjöstedt, 1921
