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Eastern lubber grasshopper
An adult eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
list of crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids
The crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids constitute the order Orthoptera. This is a list of significant orthopterans ordered alphabetically by suborder and family.
- suborder Ensifera (crickets and katydids)
- family Anostostomatidae
- giant wētā (genus Deinacrida)
- crickets (family Gryllidae)
- raspy crickets (family Gryllacrididae)
- leaf-rolling crickets (subfamily Gryllacridinae)
- mole crickets (family Gryllotalpidae)
- family Stenopelmatidae
- Jerusalem crickets (subfamily Stenopelmatinae)
- katydids (family Tettigoniidae)
- cone-headed grasshoppers (subfamily Conocephalinae)
- meadow katydids (genus Orchelimum)
- shield-backed katydids (subfamily Tettigoniinae)
- suborder Caelifera (grasshoppers)
- short-horned grasshoppers (family Acrididae)
- locusts (various general and species)
- pygmy grasshoppers (family Tetrigidae)
- pygmy sand crickets (family Tridactylidae)
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