The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUBFAMILIES OP ACRIDIIDiE. In Brunner von Wattenwyl's ' Eevision of the Orthoptera,' published at Geneva in 1893, he admits nine subfamilies of the present group. Of these, the second and fourth (Pnel'MOHIn;e and PnosoopiNiE) are exclusively confined to South Africa and to Tropical America respectively; M'hile the eighth, the PAMPnAGiXiii, is not yet recorded from India, though it is probable that some representatives maj^ occur in the northern or north-western portions. The other subfamilies are all more or less fully represented. Table of Subfamilies of Indian Acridiid^. 1 (2) Claws of the tarsi liot provided with au arolium or intermediate pad ; pro- notiun always produced backwards over the abdomen Acrydxin.^, p. 11. 2 (1) Claws of the tarsi provided with an arolium ; pronotum rarely produced over the abdomen. 3 (4) AntenniE shorter than the front femora. EuMASTACiNiE, p. 80. 4 (3) Antennje longer than the front femora. 5 (10) Prosternum luiarmed. 6 (7) Fastigium of the vertex horizontally produced, or sloping beneath, and, forming an angle with the frontal ridge Tryxalin.s;, p. 95. 7 (6) Fastigium of the vertex rounded towards the front; which is nearly vertical. 8 (9) Frontal costa obtuse; posterior tibite with no external apical spine ; second abdominal segment smooth (EDiPODiNiE, p. 128. 9 (8) Frontal costa compressed and sulcate; posterior tibiae with an apical spine on outer margin ; second abdominal [p. 158. segment granulated BATRACHOTETRiGiNiE, 10 (5) Prosternum raised and laminated in front, swollen, spined or hooked. 11 (12) Foveolae of the vertex contiguous, superior, and forming the extremity of the fastigium ; front never [p. 160, sloping PYKGOMORPHINiE, 12 (11) Foveolae of the vertex varying in position, but never forming the tip of the fastigium, and often obsolete. 13 (14) Foveolffi superior, open behind; prosternum strumose, hut rarely spined Pamphaginje, p. ]90. 14 (13) Foveolfc lateral or inferior, closed behind, or obsolete; prosternum dis- [p. 191. tinctly spined or tuberculate Oatantopin.s!,