Caryandinae

Caryandinae
Caryanda spuria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Caryandinae
Yin & Liu, 1987

The Caryandinae are a small subfamily of grasshoppers found mostly in China, India, Indochina and Malesia, but the large type genus Caryanda also has species from Africa.[1] Genera were previously placed in the tribe Oxyini, with the subfamily erected by Yin & Liu in 1987.[2]

Genera

The Orthoptera Species File[1] includes:

  1. Caryanda Stål, 1878
  2. Cercina Stål, 1878
  3. Lemba Huang, 1983;[3] current records from southern China, species:
    1. Lemba bituberculata Yin & Liu, 1987
    2. Lemba daguanensis Huang, 1983 - type species
    3. Lemba guizhouensis Yin, Zhang & You, 2013
    4. Lemba motinagar Ingrisch, Willemse & Shishodia, 2004
    5. Lemba sichuanensis Ma, Guo & Li, 1994
    6. Lemba sinensis (Chang, 1939)
    7. Lemba viriditibia Niu & Zheng, 1992
    8. Lemba wushanensis Yin, Shen & Yin, 2020
    9. Lemba yunnana Ma & Zheng, 1994
    10. Lemba zhengi Li, 1994

References

  1. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (retrieved 7 January 2023)
  2. ^ Yin X-C, Z-W Liu (1987) Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 12(1): 67 [72].
  3. ^ Huang C (1983) Zool. Res. 4(2): 149.
  • Data related to Oxyini at Wikispecies
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