Orthoptera


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Related to Orthoptera: Odonata, Hemiptera, Diptera, Thysanoptera
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Noun1.Orthoptera - grasshoppers and locustsOrthoptera - grasshoppers and locusts; crickets  
order Orthoptera
animal order - the order of animals
class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect - any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts
Acrididae, family Acrididae, family Locustidae, Locustidae - short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
family Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniidae - long-horned grasshoppers; katydids
family Stenopelmatidae, Stenopelmatidae - long-horned grasshoppers
family Gryllidae, Gryllidae - crickets
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We are singularly rich in orthoptera: I don't know whether--Ah!
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The orders Orthoptera and Hemiptera are particularly numerous; as likewise is the stinging division of the Hymenoptera the bees, perhaps, being excepted.
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Orthoptera is an order of insects consisting of grasshoppers (suborder Caelifera), and crickets and katydids (suborder Ensifera).
Preliminary study on the diversity of Orthoptera from Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo
Survey of pest mole cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) activity on pasture in south-central Florida.
Neoscapteriscus borellii and Neoscapteriscus tenuis (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae): first record in tobacco plantations in the state of Bahia, Brazil
Since 2004, different species of certified organic heliconias cultivated in the municipality of Santo Antonio de Padua, in northeastern Rio de Janeiro, have suffered significantly from defoliation by a grasshopper (Orthoptera).
Different levels of shade on population of grasshoppers and its oviposition preference on heliconias/Diferentes niveis de sombreamento na populacao de gafanhotos e sua preferencia para oviposicao em heliconias
Among other animal matter, ants were 6.1%, cockroach 4.1%, wasps 3.6%, orthoptera 3.0% and bees were 2.5%.
Dietary preference of Malayan sun bear Helarctos malayanus in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Nymphs oiStaiimrhectus longicomis Giglio-Tos (n=225), Laplatacris dispar Rhen, 1939 (n=346), Dichroplns elongatus Giglio-Tos, 1894 (n=358) anAMetaleptea brevicomis (L.) (n=251) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) were collected from the Pampean region.
Nematodes (mermithidae) parasitizing grasshoppers (orthoptera: acrididae) in the Pampean Region, Argentina/Nematoides (Mermithidae) parasitando gafanhotos (Orthoptera: Acrididae) nos Pampas regiao, a Argentina
On the basis of insect type, the market is segmented into beetles, caterpillar, hymenoptera, orthoptera, tree bugs, and others.
Worldwide Edible Insects Market Growing at the CAGR of 6.1% from 2016-2024, by PMR Report
This species is not mentioned in the list of Orthoptera identified in the Rhone department (France) by Girod et al.
Life cycle of Aiolopus strepens (Latreille, 1804) (Orthoptera, Acrididae) in different habitats Mitija (Algeria)
Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from Jordan with description of new species and re-description of less known species.
Description of New Species of Tettigonia (Tettigoniinae: Orthoptera) from Pakistan

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