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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Slant-faced Grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae) » Orphulella Group

Orphulella Group

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification
Dichromorpha viridis - male - female Small Hopper - Dichromorpha viridis - female Short-winged green grasshopper - Dichromorpha viridis - male Maybe Orphulella pelidna? - Orphulella pelidna - male immature Acrididae - Orphulella pelidna - male Dichromorpha viridis - female Orphulella pelidna - male Short-horned Grasshopper ID request, adult or nymph? - Dichromorpha viridis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Gomphocerinae (Slant-faced Grasshoppers)
No Taxon Orphulella Group
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
equivalent to tribe Orphulellini

group Orphulellae Rehn, 1906. Based on genus Orphulella Giglio-Tos, 1894
tribe Amblytropidini; group Orphulellae G.E. Wixom, 1977
tribe Orphulellini Otte, 1979
Identification
Very like Amblytropidia Group, but males with front and middle femora distinctly thickened; fastigium concave at least toward front, with no median ridge; wings more often short (depending upon species).
Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 7 August, 2009 - 6:50pm
Last updated 9 November, 2013 - 2:39pm

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