Caryandinae

Caryandinae
Caryanda spuria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
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]

References

  1. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (retrieved 10 August 2026)
  2. ↑ Yin X-C, Z-W Liu (1987) Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 12(1): 67 [72].
  3. ↑ Huang C (1983) Zool. Res. 4(2): 149.
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