Photograph courtesy of Nikite Muller, Institute for Water Research

The Crickets and Grasshoppers (Orthoptera) of South Africa

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Contents

Introduction

Resources

The Families

References

Introduction

Resources

Information about the Orthoptera can be obtained from

BIOSIS Internet Resource Guide - Orthoptera

Gordon Ramel's Grasshopper and Cricket Page

The Orthoptera page of The Tree of Life

The Orthoptera Species File Online - a database of the Orthoptera of the World Online

The Orthoptera Society Home Page

The German Society of Orthopterology

Order: ORTHOPTERA

Suborder: ENSIFERA

Superfamily: Tettigonoidea

Gryllacrididae

Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem Crickets)

Anostostomatidae (King Crickets)

Schizodactylidae (dune crickets)

Rhaphidophoridae (camel crickets)

Bradyporidae (armoured crickets)

Tettigoniidae (katydids)

Superfamily: Grylloidea

Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets)

Mogoplistidae

Gryllidae (crickets, tree crickets)

Suborder: CAELIFERA

Superfamily: Tridactyloidea

Tridactylidae (pygmy mole-crickets)

Superfamily: Tetrigoidea

Tetrigidae (grouse locusts)

Superfamily: Acridoidea s.l.

Charilaidae

Eumastacidae

Pneumoridae (bladder grasshoppers)

Pamphagidae

Lathiceridae

Lentulidae

Pyrgomorphidae

Acrididae

References