NOMEN: Spongiphori Audinet-Serville 1839: 565, 570 [M. Audinet-Serville. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. / Paris, Librairie encylopédique de Roret (1839): 776 pp., 14 pl.] BHL
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Audinet-Serville 1839):
Proscopia + Truxalis + Mesops + Akicera + Pertheitis +
Xiphicera + Tropinotus + Romalea + Phymateus +
Petasia + Thrybliophorus + Teratodes + Monachidium
+ Dericorys + Acrida [Acridium] + Calliptamus
+ Ommexecha + Chrotogonus + Eremobia + Pneumora + Oedipoda + Gomphocerus
+ Phlocerus + Mastax + Chorotypus 
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Acrida/fg (sine Tridactylus, Tetrix; incl. Proscopia, Pneumora)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Acridoidea, Acridomorpoha, Acridii
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.