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The Orthopteroid insects are some of the most well-known insects in Australia, with species found all over the country encompassing a number of orders.
Orthopteroids are insects that historically would have been included in the order Orthoptera and now may be placed in the cohort Polyneoptera.
The Orthopteroid order include:
- Blattodea: cockroaches
- Dermaptera: earwigs
- Grylloblattodea: a small order, they look like a cross between cockroaches and crickets
- Mantodea: praying mantises
- Mantophasmatodea: mantophasmids – a small order only discovered in 2002
- Orthoptera: crickets, grasshoppers, locusts and katydids / bush crickets (Tettigoniidae)
- Phasmatodea: stick insects and leaf insects
Source: Wikipedia
Please note, as the current classification is continuously evolving and changing, what is researched and written here, may have already changed. Please do your own research and feel free to provide us with feedback of any changes.
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
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Blattodea
- Superfamilies:
- Corydioidea
- Blaberoidea
- Blattoidea
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Mantodea
- Suborder: Eumantodea
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Superorder: Neoptera
- Order: Phasmatodea
- Family: Phasmidae
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Embioptera
- Family:
- Australembiidae
- Notoligotomidae
- Oligotomidea
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Dermaptera
- Family:
- Anisolabididae
- Apachyidae
- Chelisochidae
- Forficulidae
- Labiduridae
- Pygidicranidae
- Spongiphoridae
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Plecoptera
- Suborder: Antarctoperlaria
- Suborder: Arctoperlaria
- Family:
- Austroperlidae
- Eustheniidae
- Gripopterygidae
- Notonemouridae
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Zoraptera
- Family: Zorotypidae
Footnote & References
- Australian Orthopteroids, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/australian-orthopteroids
- Australian Orthopteroids, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/australian.orthopteroids
- Orthoptera, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/ORTHOPTERA
- Orthopteroid, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopteroid
- 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
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