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Genus Orphulella

Mating spotted-winged grasshoppers - Orphulella pelidna - male - female Orphulella speciosa - female Orphulella pelidna? - Orphulella pelidna - female Orphulella speciosa - male Yellow and green grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna Orphulella punctata - male Orphulella pelidna - female Small green and brown grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna - male
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)
Genus Orphulella
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orphulella Giglio-Tos, 1894
Numbers
Neartica lists 2 North American species: pelidna and speciosa. Recently O. punctata has become established in south FL.

24 spp in the genus, most in the Neotropics except for the species listed above.
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