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ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Family ACRIDIDAE (grasshoppers) 9 32 37   5
Family CONOCEPHALIDAE (cone-heads) 2 51   1 4
Family GRYLLIDAE (crickets) 2 16     2
Family GRYLLOTALPIDAE (mole-crickets) 1 9     2
Family MECONEMATIDAE (oak bush crickets) 2 21 9   4
Family MOGOPLISTIDAE (scaly crickets) 1 6      
Family PHANEROPTERIDAE (speckled bush crickets) 1 3 9   1
Family RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE (greenhouse camel crickets) 1        
Species Tachycines asynamorus Adelung (Greenhouse Camel Cricket)         1
Family TETRIGIDAE (ground-hoppers) 2   2   2
Family TETTIGONIIDAE (bush crickets) 5 51 6   3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Chopard, L., 1922 Orthoptères et Dermaptères
Chopard, L., 1951 Orthoptèroïdes
Hincks, W.D., 1949 Dermaptera and Orthoptera
Lucas, W.J., 1920 A Monograph of the British Orthoptera
Marshall, J.A. & Haes, E.C.M., 1988 Grasshoppers and allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland
Ragge, D.R., 1965 Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles
Ragge, D.R., 1973 The British Orthoptera: a supplement
Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut): http://users.skynet.be/jjw.myco.mons Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut)

Regional guides

Identifying grasshoppers, crickets and allies in Beds, Cambs and Northants.: http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/ecology-resources.htm Identifying grasshoppers, crickets and allies in Beds, Cambs and Northants.
Paul, J., 1989 Grasshoppers & Crickets of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire

Song

Burton, J. & Ragge, D.R. A Sound Guide to the Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland
Ragge, D.R. & Reynolds, W.J. A Sound Guide to the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe
Ragge, D.R. & Reynolds, W.J. The Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe
Ragge, D.R., 1965 (Song diagrams) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 15 general literature references to ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets)

ORTHOPTERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 27 feeding and other relationships of ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets)

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