Caelifera
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This article is about the orthopteran suborder. For the blowfly genus with a similar name, see Calliphora.
The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects.[2] They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea). The latter should not be confused with the mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae), which belong to the other Orthopteran sub-order Ensifera.
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Caelifera | |
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A pygmy mole-cricket | |
Red-legged grasshopper | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera Ander, 1939 |
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The name of this suborder comes from Latin meaning chisel-bearing ("chisel" in Latin: caelum),[3] referring to the "stout" shape of its species' ovipositors.[4]