| Plains Lubber Grasshopper (Brachystola magna)
Chapter Outline- Description of Insecta
- Classification of Insecta
- Archaeognatha & Zygentoma
- Pterygota
- Neoptera
- Dictyoptera
- Orthoptera
- Paraneoptera
- Endopterygota
- Diptera
- Hymenoptera
- Lepidoptera and Trichoptera
- Coleoptera

Links to external sites will appear in pop-up windows. | | | Orthoptera is the order of grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, etc.- Neoptera
- Polyneoptera [30-V]
- Plecoptera
- Embioptera
- Zoraptera
- Dermaptera
- Phasmatodea
- Mantophasmatodea
- Grylloblattodea
- Dictyoptera [30-VI]
- Orthoptera
- Paraneoptera [30-VIII]
- Endopterygota [30-IX TO 30-XIII]
CAELIFERA - GRASSHOPPERS AND LOCUSTS | |
The suborder Caelifera contains grasshoppers and locusts. As of 2024, 519 species of Caelifera have been observed in iNaturalist in the US and 3,113 throughout the world. - INFRAORDER ACRIDIDEA
- ACRIDOMORPHA
- SUPERFAMILY ACRIDOIDEA
- FAMILY ACRIDIDAE
- Spur-Throated Grasshopper (Melanoplus sp.) - 3 (Adirondacks)
- Two-Striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) - 6 (Konza)
- Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis) - most iNat observations in the US for Caelifera - 6 (Prairie Garden Trust, SCZ)
- Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca alutacea) - Kansas
- Say's Grasshopper (Spharagemon equale) - 6 (Tallgrass Prairie)
- Grasshopper (Trimerotropis) - 6 (RMNP)
- FAMILY ROMALEIDAE
- Plains Lubber Grasshopper (Brachystola magna) - 6 (Tallgrass Preserve)
- SUPERFAMILY EUMASTACOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY PAMPHAGOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY PNEUMOROIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY PROSCOPIOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY PYRGOMORPHOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY TRIGONOPTERYGOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY TETRIGOIDEA
- INFRAORDER TRIDACTYLIDEA - Sand Crickets
ENSIFERA - CRICKETS AND KATYDIDS | |
The suborder Ensifera contains crickets and katydids. As of 2024, 454 species of Ensifera have been observed in iNaturalist in the US and 3,278 throughout the world. - INFRAORDER GRYLLIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY GRYLLOIDEA
- Red-Headed Bush Cricket (Phyllopalpus pulchellus) - most iNat observations in the US for Ensifera
- SUPERFAMILY GRYLLOTALPOIDEA
- INFRAORDER TETTIGONIIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY HAGLOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY RHAPHIDOPHOROIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY SCHIZODACTYLOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY STENOPELMATOIDEA
- SUPERFAMILY TETTIGONIOIDEA
- FAMILY TETTIGONIIDAE
- Lesser Meadow Katydid (Conocephalus)
- Robust Conehead (Neoconocephalus robustus)
- Scudder's Bush Katydid (Scudderia)
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