Animal Taxonomy - Orthoptera

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Classifying living animal Orthoptera organisms.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Exopterygota
Order: Orthoptera
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* Suborder Ensifera - crickets, katydids, and allies
o Superfamily Grylloidea
+ Gryllidae - true crickets
+ Gryllotalpidae - mole crickets
+ Mogoplistidae
+ Myrmecophilidae - ant crickets
o Superfamily Hagloidea
+ Prophalangopsidae
o Superfamily Rhaphidophoroidea
+ Rhaphidophoridae - camel crickets, cave crickets, cave wetas
o Superfamily Schizodactyloidea
+ Schizodactylidae - dune crickets
o Superfamily Stenopelmatoidea
+ Anostostomatidae - wetas, king crickets
+ Cooloolidae
+ Gryllacrididae - leaf-rolling crickets
+ Stenopelmatidae - Jerusalem crickets
o Superfamily Tettigonioidea
+ Tettigoniidae - katydids / bush crickets
* Suborder Caelifera - grasshoppers, locusts
o Superfamily Acridoidea
+ Acrididae - grasshoppers, locusts
+ Arcypteridae
+ Catantopidae
+ Charilaidae
+ Chrotogonidae
+ Lathiceridae
+ Lentulidae
+ Pamphagidae - toad grasshoppers
+ Pneumoridae - bladder grasshoppers
+ Proscopiidae
+ Pyrgomorphidae - gaudy grasshoppers
+ Tetrigidae - pygmy grasshoppers
o Superfamily Eumastacoidea
+ Eumastacidae
o Superfamily Tetrigoidea
+ Batrachididae
+ Tetrigidae - grouse locusts
o Superfamily Tridactyloidea
+ Cylindrachetidae
+ Rhipipterygidae
+ Tridactylidae - pygmy mole crickets


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www.flickr.com/groups/animal-taxonomy/


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www.flickr.com/groups/aranea/
www.flickr.com/groups/caelifera/
www.flickr.com/groups/coleoptera/
www.flickr.com/groups/_diptera/
www.flickr.com/groups/hymenoptera/
www.flickr.com/groups/hemiptera/
www.flickr.com/groups/lepidoptera/
www.flickr.com/groups/mantidae/
www.flickr.com/groups/odonatas/
www.flickr.com/groups/oedemeridae/
www.flickr.com/groups/orthoptera_taxonomy/
www.flickr.com/groups/squamata/



The Orthoptera are an order of insects with incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts. Many insects in this order produce sound (known as a "stridulation") by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps. Their ears, located in the front legs, are interconnected in such a way that they are able to locate each other by sound.

Orthopterans have two pairs of wings, the forewings are narrower than the hind wings and hardened at the base. They are held overlapping the abdomen at rest. The hind wing is membranous and held folded fan-like under the forewings when at rest. They have mandibulate mouthparts, large compound eyes, antennae length varies with species. Their hind legs are enlarged for jumping.

Orthopterans develop by incomplete metamorphosis. Most orthopterans lay their eggs in the ground or on vegetation. The eggs hatch and the young nymphs resemble adults but lack wings and at this stage are often called hoppers. Through successive moults the nymphs develop wings buds until their final moult into a mature adult with fully developed wings.

The number of moults varies between species; growth is also very variable and may take a few weeks to some months depending on food availability and weather conditions.