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Family Acrididae - Short-horned Grasshoppers

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

Class Insecta - Insects

Order Orthoptera - Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids

Suborder Caelifera - Grasshoppers

Family Acrididae - Short-horned Grasshoppers

Subfamily Acridinae - Silent Slantfaced Grasshoppers
Subfamily Copiocerinae
Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae - Migratory Bird Locusts
Subfamily Gomphocerinae - Slant-faced Grasshoppers
Subfamily Leptysminae
Subfamily Melanoplinae - Spur-throated Grasshoppers
Subfamily Oedipodinae - Band-winged Grasshoppers

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