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)