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Welcome to Order Orthoptera!

Orthoptera - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Orthoptera

(From Wikipedia) 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 wētā.

FACT: All orthopterans produce noise through stridulation, rubbing either their wings or wings and legs together!

Currently discovered: 2/2 Suborders

Suborder

  1. Caelifera - Grasshoppers, Locusts and Allies
  2. Ensifera - Katydids, Crickets and Allies