- Source: Metrodorinae
Metrodorinae is a subfamily of groundhoppers or pygmy grasshoppers. There are at least 90 genera and more than 590 described species, found in South America, Africa and Asia.
Genera
The Orthoptera Species File currently (2024) lists five tribes:
Amorphopini Günther, 1939
distribution: S. America
Amorphopus Serville, 1838
Eomorphopus Hancock, 1900
= Cleostratini
=Authority: Bolívar, 1887; distribution: mostly SE Asia, Africa, S. America
= Clinophaestini
=Authority: Storozhenko, 2013; distribution: western Indochina
Birmana Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Clinophaestus Storozhenko, 2013
= Metrodorini
=Authority: Bolívar, 1887; distribution South America;synonyms: Miriatrini Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015, Mucrotettigini Cadena-Castañeda & Silva, 2019;
Note: previously placed in the Cladonotinae
= Ophiotettigini
=Authority: Tumbrinck & Skejo, 2017; distribution: SE Asia
Halmahera (insect) Storozhenko, 2016
Ophiotettix Walker, 1871
Paraspartolus Günther, 1939
Rhopalotettix Hancock, 1910
Spartolus (insect) Stål, 1877 (synonym Threciscus Bolívar, 1887)
Uvarovithyrsus Storozhenko, 2016