Infraorder Gryllidea - Crickets

Classification · Remarks

Restless Bush Cricket - Hapithus agitator - female

tiny hopper - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Infraorder Gryllidea (Crickets)

Remarks

This infraorder contains the four families of "True Crickets" of the superfamily Grylloidea.

Also, included is the family Schizodactylidae (in its own superfamily - Schizodactyloidea), which includes two genera from southern Eurasia (Schizodactylus) and southern Africa (Comicus) known as Dune Crickets or Splay-foot Crickets.

See further comments under suborder Ensifera.

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 17 November, 2011 - 1:23pm
Last updated 19 November, 2011 - 2:29pm

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