The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.
Supella is a genus of cosmopolitan and wild cockroaches, in the family Ectobiidae: originating from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Phyllium is the largest and most widespread genus of leaf insects in the family Phylliidae. They can be found in the Indian subcontinent through to Southeast Asia and Australasia.
The Lamproblattidae are a small family of South and Central American cockroaches in the order Blattodea. It consists of three genera and 10 species:
Lasaeola is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1881. The type species was described under the name Pachydactylus pronus, but was renamed Lasaeola prona when it was discovered that the name "Pachydactylus" was preoccupied. Both this genus and Deliana were removed from the synonymy of Dipoena in 1988, but many of these species require more study before their placement is certain.
The Tanaoceridae are an insect family in the monotypic superfamily Tanaoceroidea in the suborder Caelifera. They have been called desert long-horned grasshoppers.
Valanga is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae and the bird grasshopper subfamily. Species are found from the Indian subcontinent through southeast Asia and the Korean peninsula to Australia and the Pacific islands.
The Ommexechidae are a family of grasshoppers, in the Orthoptera: suborder Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in the Americas.
The Tristiridae are a family of grasshoppers, in the Orthoptera: suborder Caelifera. Species in this family can be found in the Americas.
Stethophyma is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, with species found in Europe, North America and Japan.
Praxibulus is a genus of grasshoppers found in Australia.
Quilta is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oxyinae. Species can be found in Indo-China.
Monistria is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae and the tribe Monistriini. Species are found Australia, New Zealand and surrounding islands.
The Heteropterygidae is a family of stick insects belonging to the suborder Verophasmatodea; species can be found in Australasia, East and Southeast Asia.
Phyllium jacobsoni is a species of leaf insect belonging to the family Phylliidae. Its recorded distribution is Java and no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
Clonaria is an Asian genus of stick insects in the family Diapheromeridae and subfamily Pachymorphinae.
Fruhstorferiola is a genus of grasshoppers, subfamily Melanoplinae, tribe Podismini Jacobson, 1905 and subtribe Tonkinacridina Ito, 2015; the type species was identified from Vietnam, but a majority of species are found only in China.
Humbertiella is an Asian genus of praying mantids in the family Liturgusidae.
Coptotettix is an Asian genus of ground-hoppers in the subfamily Tetriginae.
Episactidae is a family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera. There are about 19 genera and more than 60 described species in Episactidae, found in Central and South America, China, and Madagascar.
