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  • The Insect Orders
    • Orders A-M
      • Archaeognatha (Bristletails)
      • Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
      • Coleoptera (Beetles)
      • Dermaptera (Earwigs)
      • Diptera (Flies)
      • Embioptera (Web-Spinners)
      • Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
      • Hemiptera (Bugs, hoppers, scales & aphids)
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      • Megaloptera (Alderflies, Dobsonflies)
    • Orders N-Z
      • Neuroptera (Net-winged Insects)
      • Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
      • Orthoptera (Grasshoppers and Crickets)
      • Phasmida (Stick & Leaf Insects)
      • Phthiraptera (Lice)
      • Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
      • Psocoptera (Booklice & Psocids)
      • Strepsiptera (Strepsipterans)
      • Siphonaptera (Fleas)
      • Thysanoptera (Thrips)
      • Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
      • Zygentoma = Thysanura (Silverfish)
  • The Pseudo Insects
    • Class Entognatha (the Pseudo Insects; Diplura & Protura)
    • Class Collembola (Springtails)

Suborder Ensifera (Crickets)

Superfamily Grylloidea (True Crickets)
   pigmy cricket tasmania        

Superfamily Tettigonioidea (Katydids and Bush Crickets)
    Mountain Katydid Acripeza reticulata Tasmania  Mountain Katydid Acripeza reticulata Tasmania          

Superfamily Gryllotalpoidea (Mole Crickets and Ant Crickets)
   

Superfamily Rhaphidophoridea (Cave Crickets and Camel Crickets)
       

Superfamily Stenopelmatoidea
       

Pending ID – Ensifera
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The Field Guide to the Insects of Tasmania team acknowledges the palawa people; the traditional owners of lutruwita/ Tasmania. We respect their knowledge, connection and care of the land that we share and its ecosystems, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.  

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