Trigonopterygoidea

{{short description|Superfamily of grasshoppers}}

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|name=Trigonopterygoidea

|image=Leaf Grasshopper (Systella sp.) (8742072742).jpg

|image_caption=Leaf grasshopper (Systella sp.) from Malaysia

|taxon=Trigonopterygoidea

|authority=Walker, 1870Walker F (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. vol. 3 Locustidae (contd.), Acrididae. British Museum, London, p. 425-604.

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The Trigonopterygoidea are an insect superfamily in the Orthoptera: Caelifera.[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1120007 Orthoptera Species File] (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 20 December 2022) Sometimes described as leaf grasshoppers, American species in the Xyronotidae have also been called razor-backed bush-hoppers.[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1120008 Orthoptera species file: Xyronotidae]

Families and distribution

The Orthoptera Species File lists two families:

  1. subfamily Borneacridinae Kevan, 1952
  2. subfamily Trigonopteryginae Walker, 1870
  • Xyronotidae Bolívar, 1909: found in Central America north to Mexico[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=9427 Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 30 March 2010)]
  1. genus Axyronotus Dirsh & Mason, 1979
  2. genus Xyronotus Saussure, 1884

References