Orthoptera of Asia

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most widespread locust species

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Gryllus is a genus of field cricket (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllinae). Members of the genus are typically 15–31 mm long and darkly coloured.

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Phaneroptera is an Old World genus of bush crickets in the family Tettigoniidae and is the type genus of the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It was described by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1831, and the species are recorded from Europe, Africa and Asia.

Acrida is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. The genus contains around 40 species which are found in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, Hawaii, and Australia. Insects of this genus are omnivorous and a well-known pest of many agricultural crops.

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Oecanthus is a genus of cricket in subfamily Oecanthinae, the tree crickets.

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Schizodactylidae is a family of orthopteran insects found in Asia and southern Africa, known as dune crickets or splay-footed crickets. They are usually found in desert and sandy areas. Species are predatory, including Schizodactylus inexspectatus. T. B. Fletcher notes that one captive individual did not feed on any vegetable matter. Fossils are known since the Early Cretaceous.

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thumb|P. bilgeri nymph Poecilimon is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae and tribe Barbitistini. Species can be found in: central and Southeast Europe (including Italy and the Southern Alps, Southern Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria), the south of the European part of the former USSR, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, the Caucasus, Persia and extends in Central Asia to the Altai Mountains.

Leptophyes is a genus of bush-crickets (family Tettigoniidae) found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The genus was erected by Franz Xaver Fieber in 1853.

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Mastacideidae is a family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera. There are at least two genera and about eight described species in Mastacideidae, found in South Asia.

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Gampsocleis is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and tribe Gampsocleidini.

Dociostaurus is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, subfamily Gomphocerinae and typical of the tribe Dociostaurini. Species are found in Africa, southern Europe and Asia, and includes the economically important Moroccan locust.

Miramella is a small genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the subfamily Melanoplinae. They are found in Europe and eastern Asia. , Orthoptera Species File lists seven species in three subgenera. The genus was first named in 1932. Miramella is the type genus of the subtribe Miramellina (Acrididae: Melanoplinae: Podismini).

Ruspolia is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Conocephalinae. This genus includes species that may be called 'cone-heads', but the name has also been used for Conocephalus and other genera in the subfamily.

Onconotus is a genus of bush cricket in the subfamily Tettigoniinae. It is the only representative of the monotypic tribe Onconotini and species have been recorded from eastern Europe and western Asia.

Euconocephalus is a genus of bush cricket in the 'conehead' tribe Copiphorini.

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Gastrimargus is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oedipodinae (tribe Locustini). The recorded distribution of species in this genus includes Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Itara is an Asian genus of crickets, and typical of the subfamily Itarinae. Species can be found in India, southern China, Indo-China and West Malesia (including Borneo).

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Stauroderus is a genus of slant-faced grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are three described species in Stauroderus, found in the Palearctic realm.

The Trigonopterygoidea are an insect superfamily in the Orthoptera: Caelifera. Sometimes described as leaf grasshoppers, American species in the Xyronotidae have also been called razor-backed bush-hoppers.

Catantops is a genus of grasshoppers in the tribe Catantopini and is typical of the subfamily Catantopinae. Species can be found in Africa, including Madagascar and subcontinental India.

Pseudorhynchus is an Asian genus of bush crickets in the tribe Copiphorini, belonging to the 'conehead' subfamily Conocephalinae.

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Tristria is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Tropidopolinae with species found in Africa and tropical Asia.

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The Phyllophorinae is a subfamily of the bush crickets or katydids, found in east Malesia to Australia (with a record from Sri Lanka).

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Atlanticus is a genus of bush crickets or katydids in the tribe Drymadusini. It has a discontinuous recorded distribution (possibly incomplete) in North America and temperate eastern Asia.

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Teratodes is the type genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Teratodinae; species are native to India and Sri Lanka and are sometimes known as hooded grasshoppers. It was established by the French entomologist Gaspard Auguste Brullé in 1835.

Calephorus is the type genus of the Calephorini; a tribe of grasshoppers found in Africa, Europe and Indo-China.

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