order Orthoptera


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Noun1.order Orthoptera - grasshoppers and locustsorder Orthoptera - grasshoppers and locusts; crickets  
Orthoptera
animal order - the order of animals
class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect - any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts
Acrididae, family Acrididae, family Locustidae, Locustidae - short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
family Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniidae - long-horned grasshoppers; katydids
family Stenopelmatidae, Stenopelmatidae - long-horned grasshoppers
family Gryllidae, Gryllidae - crickets
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Both are insects within the scientific order Orthoptera, a name from the Greek language that means straight-winged.
Not quite a plague, but grasshopper destruction looms across state
Acrididae is a family of grasshoppers including locusts in the superfamily Acridoidea which belongs to the order Orthoptera. Superfamily Acridoidea has shown maximum diversity and divided into eleven families of which Acrididae is widely distributed in India.
Lista comentada de Acrididae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) de Haryana, India
In the order Orthoptera (Crickets) Brachytrupes membranaceus [Gurwe] the adult stage is consumed.
A survey on entomophagy prevalence in Zimbabwe
While generally not medically important like some other arthropod groups, members of the order Orthoptera are not entirely innocuous.
Medical and veterinary importance of grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets (Hexapoda: Orthoptera)
Schizodactylidae, or splay-footed crickets, are an unusual group of large, fearsome-looking predatory insects related to the true crickets, katydids and grasshoppers, in the order Orthoptera (Sciencedaily, 2011).
Human Threats to Population of Endemic Sand Dune Cricket (Schizodactylus inexpectatus)
The African grasshopper, Zonocerus variegatus (L.) is a tropical insect that belongs to Order Orthoptera and Family Pyrgomorphidae.
Impact of reproductive activities on the tissues of Zonocerus variegatus grasshopper adults (Orthoptera: Pygomorphidae)
This taxon was included by him in the order Orthoptera. In a book about phylogeny of orthopteroid insects (Sharov 1968), this family was synonymized with the Triassomantidae (Triassomanteidae sensu Sharov) described by Tillyard (1922) for another wing from Upper Triassic of Australia.
The first Permian representative of the family Xenopteridae (Orthoptera: Ensifera)

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