Acrididea

{{Short description|Infraorder of grasshoppers}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Hooded Grasshopper (Teratodus monticollis) W IMG 0525.jpg

| image_caption = Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae)

| taxon = Acrididea

| authority = MacLeay, 1821MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.

| subdivision_ranks = Superfamily group and superfamily

| subdivision =

• Acridomorpha
• Tetrigoidea

| synonyms =

}}

Acrididea including the Acridomorpha[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1100421 Orthoptera Species File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)] is an infraorder of insects that describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) 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.[http://eol.org/pages/2634396/names Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)] 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). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.