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Orthoptera

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
ORDER
Published in
Latreille, P.A. (1810) In Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes; avec un tableau méthodique de leurs genres, disposés en familles. Chez F. Schoell, rue des Fosses S.G.l'Auxerrois, Paris. 1–444 pp. Available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47766#page/11/mode/1up

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Orthoptera

Name

Synonyms
Orthoptères
Saltatoria
Homonyms
Orthoptera
Common names
Crickets in English
Crickets in English
Grasshopper in English
Grasshopper in English
Grasshoppers in English
Grasshoppers in English
Græshopper in Danish
Heuschrecken in German
Katydids in English
Katydids in English
Locusts in English
Locusts in English
crickets in English
criquet-locustes in French
gafanhoto in Portuguese
grasshopper in English
grasshoppers in English
grilo in Portuguese
katydids in English
locustes in French
locusts in English
sauterelles in French
sprinkhanen en krekels in Dutch
Grasshoppers And Crickets in English
Grasshoppers And Crickets in English
Grasshoppers, Crickets, And Katydids in English
grasshoppers and crickets in English
hopprätvingar in Swedish
rettvenger in Nynorsk, Norwegian
rásselohkku in Northern Sami
Crickets And Grasshoppers in English
Crickets And Grasshoppers in English
Grasshopper in English
Invertebrates (Crickets & Grasshoppers) in English
Invertebrates (Crickets & Grasshoppers) in English
Invertebrates (Crickets & Grasshoppers) in English
Springschrecken in German
brobhadain in Scottish Gaelic
brobhadan in Scottish Gaelic
crickets and grasshoppers in English
cuileag-theallaich in Scottish Gaelic
cuileagan-teallaich in Scottish Gaelic
fionnain-fheòir in Scottish Gaelic
fionnan-feòir in Scottish Gaelic
hopprätvingar in Swedish
krekels en sprinkhanen in Dutch
orthoptères in French
rechtvleugeligen in Dutch
Прямокрилі in Ukrainian
直翅目 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Alexander, R.D. 1960. In Lanyon & Tavolga [Ed.]. Sound communication in Orthoptera and Cicadidae. Animal Sounds and Communication, Amer. Instit. Biol. Sci. 7, Washington, D.C. 38-92
  2. Berthold. 1827. In Latreille. Natürliche Familien des Thierreichs, Weimar 404
  3. Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca, 2002: null. Invertebrates, Second Edition. xx + 936.
  4. Béthoux & A. Nel. 2002. Venation pattern and revision of Orthoptera sensu nov. and sister groups: Phylogeny of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Orthoptera sensu nov. Zootaxa 96:15, 38
  5. Cantrall & Brusven. 1996. In Merritt, R.W. & Cummins [Ed.]. Semiaquatic Orthoptera. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, 3rd edition, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 212
  6. Giebel. 1856. Gliedertiere. 1. Abteilung: Insekten und Spinnen. Fauna der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Thiere, Brockhaus, Leipzig 2:299
  7. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2011-02-08 23:00:00) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  8. Ingrisch & D.C.F. Rentz. 2009. Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets). Encyclopedia of Insects, Academic Press 2nd ed.:732
  9. Ingrisch & F.M.H. Willemse. 2004. Bibliographia Systematica Orthopterorum Saltatoriorum: Systematic bibliography of saltatorial Orthoptera from Linnaean times to the end of the 20th century (about 1750 to 2000), Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow 536 pp.
  10. Karny. 1921. Zur Systematik der orthopteroiden Insekten. Treubia 1(4):163-269
  11. Kirby, W.F. 1906. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 2:i-viii, 1-562
  12. Lamarck. 1835. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (Hist. nat. Anim. sans Vert.) 4(2nd Ed.):432
  13. Latreille. 1796. Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel: disposés dans un ordre naturel, Prèvôt, Paris 79
  14. Latreille. 1810. Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes; avec un tableau méthodique de leurs genres, disposés en familles, Chez F. Schoell, rue des Fosses S.G.l'Auxerrois, Paris 244, 433
  15. Latreille. 1825. Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposées succinctement et dans un ordre analytique, avec l'indication de leurs genres, J.-B. Baillière, Paris 408
  16. MacLeay. 1821. Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals, S. Bagster, London 2:435
  17. Olivier, G.A. 1789. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes, Paris 4:12, 16
  18. Olivier, G.A. 1811. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes, Paris 8:550
  19. Otte, Daniel / Poole, Robert W. and Patricia Gentili, eds., 1997: Orthoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America: vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders. 581-634.
  20. Petrunkewitsch & Guaita. 1901. Ueber den geschlechtlichen Dimorphismus bei den Tonapparaten der Orthopteren. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere (Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abt. Syst. Geogr. und Biol. der Tiere) 14(4):291-310, 4 pls.
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