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Tetrigidae
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Tetrix species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Orthoptera
Suborder:
Caelifera
Superfamily:
Tetrigoidea
Family:
Tetrigidae

Tetrigidae is a family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called grouse locusts, pygmy locusts, groundhoppers or pygmy grasshoppers. There are roughly 1,600 species in about 250 genera altogether.

Images for kids

  • Pygmy grasshopper at a future construction site in BSD (W-Java) (5103566083)

    Saussurella cornuta

  • Grouse Locust (Potua sp.) (23289516379)

    Potua morbillosa (Borneo)

  • Spiky Grouse Locust (Discotettix belzebuth) (6747966773)

    Discotettix belzebuth

  • Green Grouse locust (Holocerus taurus) with red mites, Vohimana reserve, Madagascar (12092757745)

    Holocerus taurus (with red mites, Madagascar)

  • Grouse Locust (Rostella phyllocera processus) (23449164835)

    Rostella phyllocera (Borneo)

  • Paratettix sp 6925

    Paratettix sp.

  • TetrigidAlgaeS

    Paratettix aztecus eating algae

See also

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