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order Orthoptera

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is Orthoptères)
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Freshwater, terrestrial.
• Citations (34):
  • 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   >> Note: Ordre V. Orthoptères
  • Latreille. 1796. Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel: disposés dans un ordre naturel, Prèvôt, Paris 79   >> Note: Orthoptères
  • 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   >> Note: Orthoptera
  • 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   >> Note: Orthoptera
  • MacLeay. 1821. Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals, S. Bagster, London 2:435   >> Note: Orthoptera
  • 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   >> Note: Orthoptera
  • Kirby, W. & Spence. 1826. An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural History of Insects, Longman, London 3:42, 302, 414, 434, 506, 556, 575   >> Note: Orthoptera
  • Berthold. 1827. Latreille's Natürliche Familien des Thierreichs, aus dem Französischen mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen, Weimar 404   >> Note: Orthoptera
  • Lamarck. 1835. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (Hist. nat. Anim. sans Vert.) 4(2nd Ed.):432   >> Note: Ordre Septième: Les Orthoptères
  • Wesmaël. 1838. Enumeratio methodica Orthopterorum Belgii. Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Bull. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles) 5:587   >> Note: Orthoptera Saltatoria
  • Westwood. 1838. In Westwood. Synopsis of the Genera of British Insects. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects: Founded on the Natural Habits and Corresponding Organisation of the Different Families, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, London 1:44-45  
  • Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris i-xviii, 1-776, pl. 1-14  
  • Zetterstedt. 1838. Orthoptera. Insecta lapponica descripta 245   >> Note: Ordo II. Orthoptera
  • Burmeister, H. 1838. Kaukerfe, Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte: Vulgo Orthoptera). Handbuch der Entomologie, Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin 2 2(I-VIII):26  
  • Siebold. 1844. Über das Stimm-und Gehörorgan der Orthopteren. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (Arch. f. Naturgesch.) 10(1):52   >> Note: Orthopteren
  • Giebel. 1856. Gliedertiere. 1. Abteilung: Insekten und Spinnen. Fauna der Vorwelt mit steter Berücksichtigung der lebenden Thiere, Brockhaus, Leipzig 2:299   >> Note: VII. Zunft: Orthoptera (in order Gymnognatha)
  • 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  
  • 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  
  • Karny. 1921. Zur Systematik der orthopteroiden Insekten. Treubia 1(4):163-269  
  • Handlirsch. 1922. Überordnung: Orthoptera (Latr.) m. (Geradflügler). Handbuch der Entomologie, (Schröder, C.), Gustav Fischer, Jena 3:443  
  • 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  
  • Sharov. 1968. Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR [= Transactions of the Institute of Paleontology, USSR Academy of Sciences] (Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta) 118:19, 154 >> Note: Orthopteroidea: Orthoptera
  • 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
  • Rácz. 2001. Some problems of the advanced classification of orthopteroids. Articulata 16(1-2):5   >> Note: Caelifera as synonym of Orthoptera (s. str.), distinct from Grylloptera with Ensifera as synonym
  • 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 >> Note: relationship to other orders in Archaeorthoptera
  • Çiplak. 2004. Biogeography of Anatolia: the marker group of Orthoptera. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana (Mem. Soc. Entomol. Ital.) 82(2):357-372
  • 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.
  • Ingrisch & D.C.F. Rentz. 2009. Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets). Encyclopedia of Insects, Academic Press 2nd ed.:732
  • Wang, X.-Y., Z.-J. Zhou, Y. Huang & F.-M. Shi. 2011. The phylogenetic relationships of higher orthopteran categories inferred from 18S gene sequences. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 36(3):627-638  
  • Gaugel, Hawlitschek, L.-S. Dey & Husemann. 2013. Evolution of mitogenomic gene order in Orthoptera. Insect Molecular Biology, Royal Entomological Society 1  
  • Song, H., Amédégnato, Cigliano, Desutter-Grandcolas, Heads, Y. Huang, D. Otte & Whiting. 2015. 300 million years of diversification: elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling. Cladistics 31:621-651
  • Zhang, Xiaohong, Jinfeng Hao, Yu Xia, Yage Chang, D.-C. Zhang & Hong Yin. 2017. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Orthoptera (Arthropoda, Insecta) based on Hexamerin sequences. Zootaxa 4232(4):523–534
  • Song, H., Béthoux, Shin, Donath, Letsch, Shanlin Liu, McKenna, G. Meng, Misof, Podsiadlowski, Xin Zhou, Wipfler & Simon. 2020. Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera. Nature Communications 11(4939):1-16  
  • Hawlitschek, Sadílek, L.-S. Dey, Buchholz, Noori, I.L. Baez, Wehrt, Brozio, Trávnícek, Seidel & Husemann. 2023. New estimates of genome size in Orthoptera and their evolutionary implications. PLOS ONE 18(3 (e0275551)):1-20  

• synonym Orthoptères
• synonym Saltatoptera
• synonym Saltatoria
• suborder Caelifera
• infraorder Acrididea
• infraorder Tridactylidea
• suborder Ensifera
• synonym Grylloptera
• synonym Locustoidea
• infraorder †Elcanidea
• infraorder Gryllidea
• infraorder †Oedischiidea
• infraorder Tettigoniidea
• superfamily †Gryllavoidea Gorochov, 1986
• family †Palaeorehniidae Zeuner, 1937
• family †Vitimiidae Sharov, 1968
• genus †Falsirameus Zhang, 1985
• genus †Gryllobencain Haug, Hörnig, Kiesmüller, Pazinato, Baranov & Haug, 2022
• genus †Liassogrylloides Bode, 1953
• genus †Thnetus Handlirsch, 1904
• genus †Yuxiania Hong, 1997
• suborder †Titanoptera
• synonym Mesotitanida
• superfamily †Tcholmanvissioidea Zalessky, 1934
• superfamily †Tettoedischioidea Gorochov, 1987
• family †Deinotitanidae Gorochov, 2007
• family †Paratitanidae Sharov, 1968
• family †Theiatitanidae Schubnel, Roques & Nel, 2021
• genus †Steinhardtia Jell & Lambkin, 1993
• family †Legendreiidae Huang, Schubnel & Nel, 2020
• genus †Legendreia Huang, Schubnel & Nel, 2020
• genus †Tillyardiella Martynov, 1930
• species †distincta Martynov, 1930

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