Alice Springs Orthoptera – Orthopteroids

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Alice Springs Orthoptera – OrthopteroidsAcrida conica Garden Mantis Giant Grasshopper Spur-throated Locust Woodger’s Gumleaf Katydid

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The Orthoptera are part of a group known as Orthopteroid (Australian Orthopteroids) insects, that are some of the most well-known insects in Australia, with species found all over the country encompassing a number of orders.

The Orthopteroid orders include Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and allies), Mantodea (mantises), Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects), Blattodea (cockroaches and termites), Embioptera (webspinners), Dermaptera (earwigs), Plecoptera (stoneflies), Zoraptera (angel insects), and the non-Australian Notoptera (ice crawlers and gladiators).

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Garden Mantis (Orthodera ministralis), Alice Springs NT — Garden Mantis (Orthodera ministralis)

Adult female Giant Grasshopper nymph (Valanga irregularis), Alice Springs NT — Giant Grasshopper nymph (Valanga irregularis)

Giant Green Slantface Grasshopper (Acrida conica), Alice Springs NT — Giant Green Slantface Grasshopper (Acrida conica)

Grasshopper genus Macrotona, Alice Springs NT — Macrotona (genus group)

Spur-throated Locust (Austracris guttulosa), Alice Springs NT — Spur-throated Locust (Austracris guttulosa)

Katydid - Taeniomenae (genus group), Alice Springs Desert Park NT — Taeniomenae (genus group) – Katydid

Woodger's Gumleaf Katydid (Terpandrus woodgeri), Alice Springs NT — Woodger’s Gumleaf Katydid (Terpandrus woodgeri)

From the order Orthoptera, that include grasshoppers, crickets, and allies), order Blattodea (cockroaches and termites), order Mantodea (mantises), order Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects), order Embioptera (webspinners), order Dermaptera (earwigs), order Plecoptera (stoneflies), order Zoraptera (angel insects), and the non-Australian order Notoptera (ice crawlers and gladiators).¹

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Informal: Pterygotes
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Eumastacidae

Footnote & References

Orthoptera, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/0192736e-0955-4830-9977-61e07c843b28
Orthoptera (Grasshoppers & Locusts), What Bug Is That? The Guide To Australian Insect Families, https://anic.csiro.au/insectfamilies/order_overview.aspx?OrderID=24892&PageID=overview
Phylum Arthropoda-Subphylum Hexapoda-Class Insecta-Order Orthoptera, Key to Australian Freshwater and Terrestrial Invertebrates, https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/TFI/start%20key/key/hexapoda%20key/Media/HTML/Orthoptera.html
Australian Orthopteroids, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/australian-orthopteroids

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