Antaresia is a genus of pythons, nonvenomous snakes found in Australia. The genus is known by the common name Children's pythons, the name of the type species. Gray named it in honour of his mentor, John George Children, who was a curator of the zoological collection at the British Museum around that time. It contains the smallest members of the Pythonidae. Currently, four species are recognized, although they were all considered part of the same species until recently.
The family Gryllidae contains the subfamilies and genera which entomologists now term true crickets. They belong to the Orthopteran subfamily Ensifera, having long, whip-like antennae and has been reduced in terms of the older literature, with taxa such as the spider-crickets and allies, sword-tail crickets, wood or ground crickets and scaly crickets elevated to family level. The type genus is Gryllus and the first use of the family name "Gryllidae" was by Walker.
Hapithinae is a subfamily of insects in the cricket family Gryllidae. It is one of several groups referred to in American English as "bush crickets", although this term can be confused with the Tettigoniidae.
The cohort Polyneoptera is a proposed taxonomic ranking for the Orthoptera and all other Neopteran insects believed to be more closely related to Orthoptera than to any other insect orders. These winged insects, now in the Paraneoptera, were formerly grouped as the Hemimetabola or Exopterygota on the grounds that they have no metamorphosis, the wings gradually developing externally throughout the nymphal stages.
Anaxipha exigua is a cricket in the genus Anaxipha, in the subfamily Trigonidiinae. Common names are "Say's trig" and "Say's bush cricket". The distribution range of Anaxipha exigua includes the Caribbean and North America.
Tettigoniidea is an infraorder of the order Orthoptera, with six extant families.
Gryllidea is an infraorder that includes crickets and similar insects in the order Orthoptera. There are two superfamilies, and more than 6,000 described species in Gryllidea.
Insara is a genus known as "western bush katydids": characteristic of the tribe Insarini and placed in the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Phaneropterinae. There are about 6 described species in Insara.
Hapithus melodius, the musical bush cricket, is a species of bush cricket in the family Gryllidae. It is found in North America.
Hoplosphyrum boreale, known generally as the western bush cricket or long-winged scaly cricket, is a species of scaly cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. It is found in North America.
Hoplosphyrum is a genus of scaly crickets in the family Mogoplistidae. There are about six described species in Hoplosphyrum.
Hapithus brevipennis, the short-winged bush cricket, is a species of bush cricket in the family Gryllidae. It is found in North America.
Phyllopalpus pulchellus, known generally as the red headed bush cricket,handsome trig or handsome bush cricket, is a species of winged bush crickets, trigs in the family Gryllidae. It is found in North America.
Anaxipha delicatula, the chirping trig, is a species of winged bush crickets, trigs in the family Trigonidiidae. It is found in North America.
Hapithus luteolira, the false jumping bush cricket, is a species of bush cricket in the family Gryllidae. It is found in North America.
Cycloptilum squamosum, known generally as the Scudder's scaly cricket or Scudder's scaly bush cricket, is a species of scaly cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. It is found in North America.
Tafalisca lurida, known generally as the silent bush cricket or robust bush cricket, is a species of true cricket in the family Gryllidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, North America, and the Caribbean.
Tafalisca is a genus of silent bush crickets in the family Gryllidae. There are more than 20 described species in Tafalisca.
Montezumina modesta, known generally as modest katydid, is a species of phaneropterine katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. Other common names include the modest bush cricket and Montezuma katydid. It is found in North America.
Hapithini is a tribe of crickets in the subfamily Hapithinae. There are about 12 genera and more than 260 described species: found in Central and South America.
