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Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight', and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and weta. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grasshoppers, locusts, and ...
- Grylloidea
Grylloidea is the superfamily of insects, in the order...
- Polyneoptera
Paurometabola. Polyneopterata. Plecopterodea. The cohort...
- Grylloidea
Orthoptera. Orthoptera are an order of insects. [1] The order contains grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets. "Ortho" means "straight", so "Orthoptera" means "straight wings". This means the front wings, called tegmina, are stiff, straight, and not used for flying. The back wings are membranous and are folded like a fan under the front wings ...
Orthoptera probably arose during the middle of the Carboniferous period. Most living members of this order are terrestrial herbivores with modified hind legs that are adapted for jumping. Slender, thickened front wings fold back over the abdomen to protect membranous, fan-shaped hind wings. Many species have the ability to make and detect sounds.
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Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets). Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied, fossorial insects about 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) long as adults, with small eyes and shovel-like fore limbs highly developed for burrowing. They are present in many parts of the world ...
- Gryllotalpidae, Saussure, 1870
- Arthropoda
Aug 14, 2023 · The Orthoptera Species File is a taxonomic database of the world's Orthoptera (grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, and related insects), both living and fossil. It has full taxonomic and synonymic information for more than 29,530 valid species, 48,410 scientific names, 240,600 citations to 16,000 references, 110,300 images, 2050 sound recordings ...
Orthopterology is the scientific study of the order Orthoptera, which includes grasshoppers, crickets, locusts and some other insects. Someone that studies in this field is an orthopterist . The term is derived from the Ancient Greek words ὀρθός and πτερόν, meaning straight and wing respectively, with the English suffix -logy.
