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Top: Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna: Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Orthoptera

Orthoptera includes some 20,000 species of grasshoppers, crickets, locusts, and katydids, most being herbivores. They are relatively large insects with an enlarged pronotum. The hind femora are large and adapted for jumping. Females have a large ovipositor but male genitalia are not visible externally.

Acrididae

Family of grasshoppers.

Gryllidae

Family of crickets.

Gryllotalpidae

Family of mole crickets.

Tettigoniidae

Family of katydids or bush crickets.

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