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Acridid, n. and a. Ent.|ˈækrɪdɪd|
Also acridid.
[f. mod.L. Acrididæ, earlier Acridiidæ, family name f. Acrida, generic name f. Gr. ἀκρίδ-, ἀκρίς locust: see -id3.]
A. n. An orthopterous insect of the family Acrididæ, which includes locusts and short-horned grasshoppers.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this family. Also Aˈcridiid n. and a., in the same sense.
1923H. M. LeFroy Man. Entomol. viii. 54 The Acridiids form the most important group of the Orthoptera and contain the true locusts. 1925A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 224 The Acridiid subfamily Œdipodinæ. 1941Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII. 511 No Acridid has been found in deposits of an age earlier than the Tertiary. Ibid. 519 The Recent Acridid genera. 1946F. E. Zeuner Dating Past xii. 366 A second instance is that of the acridid grasshopper Euchorthippus elegantulus Znr., also from Jersey. 1967M. J. Coe Ecol. Alpine Zone Mt. Kenya 94 The insect fauna of Mt. Kenya is very little known, but the author has observed flightless Acridids. 1968H. Oldroyd Elem. Entomol. ix. 98 A few other Acridiids rub the fore- and hind-wings of the same side together. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. iii. 70 The acridids or grasshoppers—sometimes called shorthorn grasshoppers—may be differentiated from the tettigoniids or longhorn grasshoppers by their short antennae. |