Grasshoppers & Crickets
Order Orthoptera
218 speciesKnown for their powerful hind legs adapted for jumping. Many species produce sounds by stridulation and are important herbivores in grassland ecosystems.
Species in this Order
African Cave Cricket
Phaeophilacris spectrum
A large, pale cave-dwelling cricket found in caves across sub-Saharan Africa. It has greatly reduced...
African Migratory Locust
Locusta migratoria migratorioides
A widespread African subspecies of the migratory locust that can form devastating swarms. Solitary i...
African Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa africana
A widespread mole cricket found across Africa and southern Asia, common in irrigated croplands and g...
Alpine Dark Bush-cricket
Pholidoptera aptera
A large, dark bush-cricket found in alpine and subalpine scrublands. It is completely flightless wit...
Alpine Grasshopper
Kosciuscola tristis
A striking color-changing grasshopper found in the Australian Alps above the snowline. Males turn fr...
Alpine Long-horned Grasshopper
Anonconotus alpinus
A small, flightless bush-cricket of high alpine meadows. Its green and brown coloring provides camou...
Andean Giant Weta Relative
Cratomelus armatus
A large, heavily built cricket relative found in Andean forests and grasslands. It has a robust body...
Angular-winged Pygmy Grasshopper
Tettix japonica
A small, dark pygmy grasshopper found across East Asia. It is one of the most studied tetrigids in J...
Ant Cricket
Myrmecophilus acervorum
A minute, wingless cricket that lives inside ant nests as a social parasite. It is oval-shaped and m...
Aquatic Pygmy Grasshopper
Scelimena producta
A remarkable semi-aquatic pygmy grasshopper with paddle-like hind legs used for swimming. It dives a...
Arabian Desert Grasshopper
Sphingonotus rubescens
A small, sandy-colored band-winged grasshopper found across North Africa and the Middle East. Its bl...
Armored Ground Cricket
Acanthoplus discoidalis
A large heavily armored katydid with sharp spines on its thorax and legs. It is flightless and moves...
Armoured Ground Cricket
Acanthoplus longipes
A robust flightless katydid covered in sharp spines across its thorax and legs. It is an omnivorous ...
Australian King Cricket
Australostylus montanus
A large, robust cricket found in the cool mountain forests of southeastern Australia. It is flightle...
Australian Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa pluvialis
A native Australian mole cricket that emerges from the soil in large numbers after heavy rains. It i...
Australian Plague Locust
Chortoicetes terminifera
Australia's most economically damaging locust species. It has a distinctive dark spot at the tip of ...
Balkan Cave Cricket
Troglophilus cavicola
A common cave cricket found throughout the Dinaric karst region of southeastern Europe. It congregat...
Banks Peninsula Tree Weta
Hemideina ricta
The rarest tree weta in New Zealand, restricted to Banks Peninsula near Christchurch. It was not des...
Bark Mimic Grasshopper
Chorotypus gallinaceus
A Southeast Asian grasshopper with a broad, flattened body shaped like a piece of bark. Its mottled ...
Black Field Cricket
Teleogryllus commodus
A common black cricket whose chirping song is a familiar sound of Australian summer nights. It is wi...
Bladder Grasshopper
Bullacris membracioides
A grasshopper with an inflated balloon-like abdomen used as a resonating chamber....
Blue-winged Grasshopper
Oedipoda caerulescens
A well-camouflaged grasshopper that reveals bright blue hindwings when it flies. At rest it blends p...
Bog Bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
A dark-colored bush-cricket with short wings and pale lateral stripes on the pronotum. It favors wet...
Bombay Locust
Nomadacris succincta
A large yellow and brown locust that can form swarms in South and Southeast Asia. Solitary adults ar...
Bornean Monkey Grasshopper
Erianthus versicolor
A vividly multicolored monkey grasshopper from Borneo's montane forests with blue, green, red, and y...
Broad-backed Grouse Locust
Nomotettix cristatus
A pygmy grasshopper with a high crested pronotum that gives it a broad-backed appearance. It inhabit...
Brown Locust
Locustana pardalina
A medium-sized brown locust endemic to southern Africa that periodically swarms in the Karoo region....
Canterbury Tree Weta
Hemideina femorata
A medium-sized tree weta found in the eastern South Island of New Zealand. It has dark brown banding...
Cape Mountain Katydid
Pseudosaga incerta
A large predatory katydid with bold orange and blue-green warning colors. Found only on high mountai...
Carolina Grasshopper
Dissosteira carolina
A large band-winged grasshopper with black hindwings bordered by a pale yellow margin. It is commonl...
Cave Cricket
Ceuthophilus secretus
A wingless, hump-backed cricket with extremely long antennae adapted for life in total darkness. It ...
Cave Weta
Gymnoplectron acanthocerum
A large cave-dwelling weta endemic to New Zealand with extremely long antennae up to three times its...
Central American Locust
Schistocerca piceifrons
A significant agricultural pest locust in Mexico and Central America. It periodically swarms and can...
Changa Mole Cricket
Scapteriscus didactylus
A large mole cricket native to South America that became a severe pest in Puerto Rico and the Caribb...
Cloaked Groundhopper
Tetrix ceperoi
A small pygmy grasshopper of bare, damp ground on heathlands and coastal salt pans in western Europe...
Common Cone-head
Conocephalus fuscus
A small slender katydid with a pointed head and brown body. It lives low in tall grasses near wetlan...
Common Field Grasshopper
Chorthippus brunneus
An abundant European grasshopper with highly variable coloration ranging from green to brown. It pro...
Common Green Grasshopper
Omocestus viridulus
A small grasshopper varying from bright green to brown with a characteristic buzzing song that accel...
Common Groundhopper
Tetrix undulata
A tiny, dark pygmy grasshopper whose pronotum extends backward over the entire abdomen like a shield...
Cone-Head Katydid
Copiphora rhinoceros
A Neotropical katydid with a long horn-like projection from its head. It is an omnivorous species ac...
Cone-headed Katydid
Neoconocephalus ensiger
A long, slender katydid with a distinctive pointed cone on the top of its head. It hides among tall ...
Congo Basin Katydid
Enyaliopsis petersi
A large, armored katydid with a heavily spined pronotum and legs. It produces loud stridulating call...
Cook Strait Giant Weta
Deinacrida rugosa
One of the heaviest insects in the world, endemic to New Zealand. It is a nocturnal insect that hide...
Cooloola Monster
Cooloola propator
A bizarre blind burrowing cricket found only in sandy soils of Queensland....
Cumberland Plateau Cave Cricket
Hadenoecus cumberlandicus
A cave cricket restricted to caves in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee and Kentucky. It has small...
Dark Bush-cricket
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
A robust dark brown bush-cricket with vestigial wings. It is common in hedgerows and woodland edges ...
Dead Leaf Katydid
Typophyllum erosum
A Neotropical katydid that mimics a dead, decaying leaf with astonishing accuracy. Its wings display...
Denticerus Pygmy Mole Cricket
Denticerus raui
A rare pygmy mole cricket from South Asia with distinctive toothed antennae. It inhabits sandy soils...
Desert Clicker Grasshopper
Ligurotettix coquilletti
A small, slender grasshopper found exclusively on creosote bushes in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts....
Desert Locust
Schistocerca gregaria
Forms enormous swarms of billions that devastate crops across Africa and Asia. A single swarm can co...
Differential Grasshopper
Melanoplus differentialis
A large spur-throated grasshopper recognized by the herringbone pattern on its hind femora. It is a ...
Dominican Amber Cricket
Amphiacusta annulipes
A cave-dwelling cricket found in Hispaniola with long antennae and pale coloring. It is related to s...
Dragon-Headed Katydid
Lesina intermedia
A Southeast Asian katydid with elaborate head projections resembling a dragon. Its bizarre head shap...
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Romalea microptera
A large, brightly colored grasshopper with short wings that cannot fly. Its bold yellow, red, and bl...
Egyptian Grasshopper
Anacridium aegyptium
One of the largest European grasshoppers with distinctive striped eyes. It has grey-brown coloring w...
Elegant Bush Cricket
Euconocephalus nasutus
A large cone-headed katydid with bright green coloring and a sharply pointed head. It is attracted t...
Elegant Cave Cricket
Ceuthophilus elegans
A moderately-sized cave cricket found in caves and dark sheltered areas across the eastern United St...
Elegant Grasshopper
Zonocerus elegans
A strikingly colorful grasshopper with green, yellow, black, and orange warning patterns. It feeds o...
Ellipes Pygmy Mole Cricket
Ellipes minuta
One of the smallest orthopterans in the world, barely visible to the naked eye. It lives in moist sa...
European Cave Cricket
Dolichopoda linderi
A true troglobitic cricket found in caves of the French Pyrenees. It has reduced eyes and elongated ...
Fall Field Cricket
Gryllus pennsylvanicus
A common North American black field cricket whose chirping is the quintessential sound of autumn. Ad...
Field Cricket
Gryllus campestris
Males produce their characteristic chirping song by rubbing their wings together (stridulation). The...
Fiordland Cave Weta
Pachyrhamma waitomoensis
A large cave weta found in the cave systems of the Waitomo region in New Zealand. It has very long l...
Foam Grasshopper
Dictyophorus spumans
A large black and red grasshopper that produces a foul-smelling toxic foam when disturbed. It is one...
Formidable Pygmy Grasshopper
Notocerus formidabilis
An extremely rare Madagascan grasshopper not observed since its original description in 1974. Its tr...
Galapagos Flightless Katydid
Nesoecia cooksoni
A large flightless katydid endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Part of the archipelagos remarkable pat...
Giant Amazonian Cricket
Brachytrupes megacephalus
A large burrowing cricket with a disproportionately large head and powerful mandibles used for excav...
Giant Amazonian Katydid
Stilpnochlora couloniana
A very large bright green katydid with wings shaped like a broad tropical leaf. It is one of the lar...
Giant Grasshopper
Valanga irregularis
The largest grasshopper in Australia, with females reaching impressive sizes. It is a strong flier t...
Giant Long-Legged Katydid
Macrolyristes corporalis
One of the largest katydids in the world with a leg span exceeding 25 cm. Found in the rainforests o...
Giant Malaysian Cricket
Brachytrupes portentosus
One of the largest crickets in the world with a robust brown body, powerful hind legs, and a loud, r...
Giant Malaysian Katydid
Arachnacris corporalis
Among the heaviest katydids in the world with females weighing over 30 grams. Found in lowland Borne...
Giant Red-winged Grasshopper
Tropidacris cristata
One of the largest grasshoppers in the world, with a wingspan exceeding 20 cm. Its hindwings are viv...
Granulated Pygmy Grasshopper
Tetrix arenosa
A granular-textured pygmy grasshopper found on sandy and gravelly substrates in North America. Its r...
Gray Bird Grasshopper
Schistocerca nitens
A large, strong-flying grasshopper of arid western North America. It is closely related to the deser...
Great Green Bush-Cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
One of the largest katydids in Europe, with a bright green body and long wings. Males produce a loud...
Greater Arid-Land Katydid
Neobarrettia spinosa
A large, aggressive predatory katydid from the American Southwest with powerful spiny legs. It is on...
Greenhouse Camel Cricket
Diestrammena asynamora
A humpbacked, wingless cricket with extremely long antennae and legs. It is light brown with dark mo...
Greenhouse Stone Cricket
Tachycines asynamorus
A pale brown cave cricket with enormously long antennae and hind legs. It is wingless with a humped ...
Grey Bush-Cricket
Platycleis albopunctata
A cryptic grey-brown bush-cricket of dry coastal grasslands and chalky hillsides in Europe. It sings...
Gumleaf Grasshopper
Goniaea australasiae
A well-camouflaged grasshopper whose flattened body and brown coloring perfectly mimic a dead eucaly...
Hawaiian Predatory Cricket
Leptogryllus deceptor
A small cricket endemic to Hawaii that has evolved predatory habits. It hunts smaller insects on the...
Heath Grasshopper
Chorthippus vagans
A small brown grasshopper confined to heathland. One of the rarest grasshoppers in Britain....
Hemiandrus Ground Weta
Hemiandrus maculifrons
A New Zealand ground weta that is one of the very few orthopterans showing maternal care. Females gu...
Hooded Leaf Katydid
Phyllophorella queenslandica
An Australian katydid with a dramatically expanded pronotum that covers its head like a hood. The en...
Horse-head Grasshopper
Pseudoproscopia scabra
An extremely elongated grasshopper with a head shaped like a miniature horse head....
House Cricket
Acheta domesticus
A light brown cricket commonly found in and around human dwellings. It is widely farmed as a protein...
Indian Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa krishnani
A mole cricket endemic to the Indian subcontinent found in irrigated crop fields. It damages seedlin...
Italian Cave Cricket
Dolichopoda geniculata
A cave cricket endemic to caves in central Italy. It forms genetically distinct populations in diffe...
Italian Locust
Calliptamus italicus
A medium-sized locust with pink hindwings found across southern Europe and Central Asia. It favors d...
Italian Tree Cricket
Oecanthus pellucens
A delicate pale green cricket with translucent wings. Males sing a melodious continuous trill on war...
Jamaican Field Cricket
Gryllus assimilis
A robust field cricket common throughout Jamaica and the Caribbean. Males produce loud chirping song...
Japanese Bell Cricket
Meloimorpha japonica
A small brown cricket revered in Japanese culture for its beautiful tinkling bell-like song. It has ...
Japanese Cave Cricket
Diestrammena japanica
A large cave cricket native to Japan where it inhabits natural caves and man-made tunnels. It has ve...
Japanese Katydid
Gampsocleis buergeri
A large green katydid with a robust body and powerful jaws found across Japan. Its loud evening chir...
Japanese Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa fossor
A mole cricket native to Japan and Korea that inhabits moist soils near rivers and paddies. It is de...
Japanese Pine Cricket
Xenogryllus marmoratus
Known as 'matsumushi' in Japanese, this cricket produces a distinctive high-pitched chirp. Along wit...
Javanese Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa orientalis
An East Asian mole cricket found in lowland rice paddies and moist agricultural soils across Japan, ...
Jerusalem Cricket
Stenopelmatus fuscus
A large, flightless insect with a round head and amber-banded abdomen found in western North America...
Kaempfer's Sawyer Cricket
Prophalangopsis obscura
A living fossil cricket from the mountains of northern India. Its family dates back to the Jurassic ...