Stenopelmatidae

Stenopelmatidae

Stenopelmatus fuscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Superfamily:	Stenopelmatoidea
Family:	Stenopelmatidae
Genera
Ammopelmatus Orcytopus Sia Stenopelmatopterus Stenopelmatus Viscainopelmatus

The family Stenopelmatidae is composed of large, flightless insects resembling crickets (the family Gryllidae). The majority of species are in the New World (esp. the genus Stenopelmatus), but the genera Orcytopus and Sia are Old World groups, each of which is placed in its own subfamily.^[1]

References

↑ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, María Marta; Braun, Holger. "family Stenopelmatidae Burmeister, 1838". Orthoptera Species File.

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Extant Orthoptera families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Orthopterida

Suborder Ensifera

Grylloidea	Gryllidae (crickets) Gryllotalpidae (mole crickets) Mogoplistidae Myrmecophilidae (ant crickets)

Hagloidea	Prophalangopsidae (grigs)

Rhaphidophoroidea	Rhaphidophoridae (cave, camel and spider crickets; cave wetas)

Schizodactyloidea	Schizodactylidae (dune crickets or splay-footed crickets)

Stenopelmatoidea	Anostostomatidae (wetas, king crickets) Cooloolidae (Cooloola monster and relatives) Gryllacrididae (leaf-rolling crickets) Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem crickets)

Tettigonioidea	Tettigoniidae (katydids, bush-crickets or long-horned grasshoppers)

Suborder Caelifera

Acrididea

Acridoidea	Acrididae (grasshoppers, locusts) Catantopidae Charilaidae Dericorythidae Lathiceridae Lentulidae Lithidiidae Ommexechidae Pamphagidae (toad grasshoppers) Pyrgacrididae Romaleidae (lubber grasshoppers) Tristiridae

Eumastacoidea	Chorotypidae Episactidae Eumastacidae (monkey grasshoppers or matchstick grasshoppers) Euschmidtiidae Mastacideidae Morabidae Proscopiidae Thericleidae

Pneumoroidea	Pneumoridae (bladder grasshoppers)

Pyrgomorphoidea	Pyrgomorphidae (gaudy grasshoppers)

Tanaoceroidea	Tanaoceridae

Tetrigoidea	Tetrigidae (grouse locusts, pygmy locusts or groundhoppers)

Trigonopterygoidea	Trigonopterygidae Xyronotidae

Tridactylidea

Tridactyloidea	Cylindrachetidae (sandgropers) Ripipterygidae Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets)

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