OrthopteraAustralian Orthopteroid Index Garden Mantis Grasshoppers Blistered Pyrgomorph Giant Grasshopper (Valanga irregularis) Macrotona Queensland Spotted Pyrgomorph (Greyacris profundesulcata) Katydids (family Tettigoniidae)
The Australian Orthopteroids are a group of well-known insects in Australia, encompassing the Orthopteroid orders that 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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- 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 and locusts, CSIRO, https://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects/orthoptera.html
- Identification resources online, CSIRO, https://www.csiro.au/en/research/animals/insects/id-resources
- Mantodea: praying mantids, CSIRO, https://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects/mantodea.html
- Phasmatodea: stick and leaf insects, CSIRO, https://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects/phasmatodea.html
- 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, iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/australian-orthopteroids
- Orthopteroid, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopteroid
OrthopteraAustralian Orthopteroid Index Garden Mantis Grasshoppers Blistered Pyrgomorph Giant Grasshopper (Valanga irregularis) Macrotona Queensland Spotted Pyrgomorph (Greyacris profundesulcata) Katydids (family Tettigoniidae)
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