Orthoptera
| Insect order comprising the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. The order contains some 10,000 species arranged in about 15 families. |
| The largest and most important family is Acrididae, the grasshoppers and locusts. The other Orthopteran families include: Gryllidae, the crickets; Gryllotalpidae, the mole crickets; and Tettigoniidae, the bush crickets (katydids). |
ClassificationOrthoptera is in subclass Pterygota, class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda. |
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