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Alice Springs OrthopteraAcrida 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 (that include Australian Orthopteroids) insects are some of the most well-known insects in Australia, with species found all over the country encompassing a number of orders.
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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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