Infraorder Tettigoniidea - Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Remarks

I kinda like this bug, I don't what it is or where it came from - Ammopelmatus

Katydid 2 - Conocephalus fasciatus - male

Unknown Katydid - Conocephalus fasciatus - female

9026149 Conocephalus - Conocephalus brevipennis - 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 Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

First use of name as infraorder Tettigoniidea is in - Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker. 'Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms' 2:356

Remarks

It is probable that three phylogenetically natural divisions of Tettigoniidea can be made. These would be (with only North American families listed under each):

superfamily Tettigonioidea including family Tettigoniidae

superfamily Rhaphidophoroidae including family Rhaphidophoridae

superfamily Stenopelmatoidea including families Anostostomatidae, Gryllacrididae, Prophalangopsidae, and Stenopelmatidae,

The Rhaphidophoroidae may deserve full "infraorder" status, though this seems uncertain. Currently published classifications of the Ensifera, and of the families included in the traditional infraorder Tettigoniidea, are often in conflict; with each new publication tending to contradict elements of previous. Therefore, at present and for convenience, only the infraorder Tettigoniidea is recognized here, with no further formal subdivision between suborder and family rankings.

See further comments under suborder Ensifera.

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 17 November, 2011 - 1:24pm
Last updated 9 June, 2014 - 9:35am

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