Animal Taxonomy - Caelifera

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Classifying orthopteros animal organisms.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Families:
Superfamily: Tridactyloidea
* Cylindrachaetidae
* Ripipterygidae
* Tridactylidae
Superfamily: Tetrigoidea
* Tetrigidae
Superfamily: Eumastacoidea
* Chorotypidae
* Episactidae
* Eumastacidae
* Euschmidtiidae
* Mastacideidae
* Morabidae
* Proscopiidae
* Thericleidae
Superfamily: Pneumoroidea
* Pneumoridae
Superfamily: Pyrgomorphoidea
* Pyrgomorphidae
Superfamily: Acridoidea
* Acrididae
* Charilaidae
* Dericorythidae
* Lathiceridae
* Lentulidae
* Lithidiidae
* Ommexechidae
* Pamphagidae
* Pyrgacrididae
* Romaleidae
* Tristiridae
Superfamily: Tanaoceroidea
* Tanaoceridae
Superfamily: Trigonopterygoidea
* Trigonopterygidae
* Xyronotidae

Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish them from bush crickets or katydids, they are sometimes referred to as short-horned grasshoppers. Species that change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts.

The Caelifera have antennae that are almost always shorter than the body (sometimes filamentous), and short ovipositors. Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdomen (stridulation), or by snapping the wings in flight. Tympana, if present, are on the sides of the first abdominal segment. The hind femora are typically long and strong, fitted for leaping. Generally they are winged, but hind wings are membranous while front wings (tegmina) are coriaceous and not fit for flight. Females are normally larger than males, with short ovipositors.