Grasshoppers & Crickets
Order Orthoptera
Known for their powerful hind legs adapted for jumping. Many species produce sounds by stridulation and are important herbivores in grassland ecosystems.
Species in this Order (158)
African Cave Cricket
Phaeophilacris spectrum
A large, pale cave-dwelling cricket found in caves across sub-Saharan Africa. It has greatly reduced...
African Cave Cricket
Ceuthophilus meridionalis
A pale humpbacked cricket adapted to life in African caves with reduced eyes and elongated antennae ...
African Migratory Locust
Locusta migratoria migratorioides
A widespread African subspecies of the migratory locust that can form devastating swarms. Solitary i...
African Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa africana
A widespread mole cricket found across Africa and southern Asia, common in irrigated croplands and g...
Alpine Grasshopper
Kosciuscola tristis
A striking color-changing grasshopper found in the Australian Alps above the snowline. Males turn fr...
Arabian Desert Grasshopper
Sphingonotus rubescens
A small, sandy-colored band-winged grasshopper found across North Africa and the Middle East. Its bl...
Armored Ground Cricket
Acanthoplus discoidalis
A large heavily armored katydid with sharp spines on its thorax and legs. It is flightless and moves...
Armoured Ground Cricket
Acanthoplus longipes
A robust flightless katydid covered in sharp spines across its thorax and legs. It is an omnivorous ...
Australian King Cricket
Australostylus montanus
A large, robust cricket found in the cool mountain forests of southeastern Australia. It is flightle...
Bark Mimic Grasshopper
Chorotypus gallinaceus
A Southeast Asian grasshopper with a broad, flattened body shaped like a piece of bark. Its mottled ...
Black Field Cricket
Teleogryllus commodus
A common black cricket whose chirping song is a familiar sound of Australian summer nights. It is wi...
Bladder Grasshopper
Bullacris membracioides
A grasshopper with an inflated balloon-like abdomen used as a resonating chamber....
Blue-winged Grasshopper
Oedipoda caerulescens
A well-camouflaged grasshopper that reveals bright blue hindwings when it flies. At rest it blends p...
Bog Bush-cricket
Metrioptera brachyptera
A dark-colored bush-cricket with short wings and pale lateral stripes on the pronotum. It favors wet...
Bombay Locust
Nomadacris succincta
A large yellow and brown locust that can form swarms in South and Southeast Asia. Solitary adults ar...
Bornean Monkey Grasshopper
Erianthus versicolor
A vividly multicolored monkey grasshopper from Borneo's montane forests with blue, green, red, and y...
Brown Locust
Locustana pardalina
A medium-sized brown locust endemic to southern Africa that periodically swarms in the Karoo region....
Canterbury Tree Weta
Hemideina femorata
A medium-sized tree weta found in the eastern South Island of New Zealand. It has dark brown banding...
Cape Mountain Katydid
Pseudosaga incerta
A large predatory katydid with bold orange and blue-green warning colors. Found only on high mountai...
Carolina Grasshopper
Dissosteira carolina
A large band-winged grasshopper with black hindwings bordered by a pale yellow margin. It is commonl...
Cave Cricket
Ceuthophilus secretus
A wingless, hump-backed cricket with extremely long antennae adapted for life in total darkness. It ...
Cave Cricket
Ceuthophilus gracilipes
A wingless, long-legged cricket adapted to life in dark caves and rock crevices. Its extremely long ...
Cave Weta
Gymnoplectron acanthocerum
A large cave-dwelling weta endemic to New Zealand with extremely long antennae up to three times its...
Cloaked Groundhopper
Tetrix ceperoi
A small pygmy grasshopper of bare, damp ground on heathlands and coastal salt pans in western Europe...
Common Cone-head
Conocephalus fuscus
A small slender katydid with a pointed head and brown body. It lives low in tall grasses near wetlan...
Common Green Grasshopper
Omocestus viridulus
A small grasshopper varying from bright green to brown with a characteristic buzzing song that accel...
Common Groundhopper
Tetrix undulata
A tiny, dark pygmy grasshopper whose pronotum extends backward over the entire abdomen like a shield...
Cone-Head Katydid
Copiphora rhinoceros
A Neotropical katydid with a long horn-like projection from its head. It is an omnivorous species ac...
Cook Strait Giant Weta
Deinacrida rugosa
One of the heaviest insects in the world, endemic to New Zealand. It is a nocturnal insect that hide...
Cooloola Monster
Cooloola propator
A bizarre blind burrowing cricket found only in sandy soils of Queensland....
Dark Bush-cricket
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
A robust dark brown bush-cricket with vestigial wings. It is common in hedgerows and woodland edges ...
Dead Leaf Katydid
Typophyllum erosum
A Neotropical katydid that mimics a dead, decaying leaf with astonishing accuracy. Its wings display...
Desert Clicker Grasshopper
Ligurotettix coquilletti
A small, slender grasshopper found exclusively on creosote bushes in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts....
Desert Locust
Schistocerca gregaria
Forms enormous swarms of billions that devastate crops across Africa and Asia. A single swarm can co...
Differential Grasshopper
Melanoplus differentialis
A large spur-throated grasshopper recognized by the herringbone pattern on its hind femora. It is a ...
Dominican Amber Cricket
Amphiacusta annulipes
A cave-dwelling cricket found in Hispaniola with long antennae and pale coloring. It is related to s...
Dragon-Headed Katydid
Lesina intermedia
A Southeast Asian katydid with elaborate head projections resembling a dragon. Its bizarre head shap...
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Romalea microptera
A large, brightly colored grasshopper with short wings that cannot fly. Its bold yellow, red, and bl...
Egyptian Grasshopper
Anacridium aegyptium
One of the largest European grasshoppers with distinctive striped eyes. It has grey-brown coloring w...
Elegant Bush Cricket
Euconocephalus nasutus
A large cone-headed katydid with bright green coloring and a sharply pointed head. It is attracted t...
Elegant Grasshopper
Zonocerus elegans
A strikingly colorful grasshopper with green, yellow, black, and orange warning patterns. It feeds o...
Field Cricket
Gryllus campestris
Males produce their characteristic chirping song by rubbing their wings together (stridulation). The...
Foam Grasshopper
Dictyophorus spumans
A large black and red grasshopper that produces a foul-smelling toxic foam when disturbed. It is one...
Formidable Pygmy Grasshopper
Notocerus formidabilis
An extremely rare Madagascan grasshopper not observed since its original description in 1974. Its tr...
Galapagos Flightless Katydid
Nesoecia cooksoni
A large flightless katydid endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Part of the archipelagos remarkable pat...
Giant Grasshopper
Valanga irregularis
The largest grasshopper in Australia, with females reaching impressive sizes. It is a strong flier t...
Giant Long-Legged Katydid
Macrolyristes corporalis
One of the largest katydids in the world with a leg span exceeding 25 cm. Found in the rainforests o...
Giant Malaysian Katydid
Arachnacris corporalis
Among the heaviest katydids in the world with females weighing over 30 grams. Found in lowland Borne...
Gray Bird Grasshopper
Schistocerca nitens
A large, strong-flying grasshopper of arid western North America. It is closely related to the deser...
Great Green Bush-Cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
One of the largest katydids in Europe, with a bright green body and long wings. Males produce a loud...
Greater Arid-Land Katydid
Neobarrettia spinosa
A large, aggressive predatory katydid from the American Southwest with powerful spiny legs. It is on...
Greenhouse Camel Cricket
Diestrammena asynamora
A humpbacked, wingless cricket with extremely long antennae and legs. It is light brown with dark mo...
Greenhouse Stone Cricket
Tachycines asynamorus
A pale brown cave cricket with enormously long antennae and hind legs. It is wingless with a humped ...
Grey Bush-Cricket
Platycleis albopunctata
A cryptic grey-brown bush-cricket of dry coastal grasslands and chalky hillsides in Europe. It sings...
Gumleaf Grasshopper
Goniaea australasiae
A well-camouflaged grasshopper whose flattened body and brown coloring perfectly mimic a dead eucaly...
Hawaiian Predatory Cricket
Leptogryllus deceptor
A small cricket endemic to Hawaii that has evolved predatory habits. It hunts smaller insects on the...
Hemiandrus Ground Weta
Hemiandrus maculifrons
A New Zealand ground weta that is one of the very few orthopterans showing maternal care. Females gu...
Hooded Leaf Katydid
Phyllophorella queenslandica
An Australian katydid with a dramatically expanded pronotum that covers its head like a hood. The en...
Horse-head Grasshopper
Pseudoproscopia scabra
An extremely elongated grasshopper with a head shaped like a miniature horse head....
House Cricket
Acheta domesticus
A light brown cricket commonly found in and around human dwellings. It is widely farmed as a protein...
Italian Locust
Calliptamus italicus
A medium-sized locust with pink hindwings found across southern Europe and Central Asia. It favors d...
Italian Tree Cricket
Oecanthus pellucens
A delicate pale green cricket with translucent wings. Males sing a melodious continuous trill on war...
Jamaican Field Cricket
Gryllus assimilis
A robust field cricket common throughout Jamaica and the Caribbean. Males produce loud chirping song...
Japanese Bell Cricket
Meloimorpha japonica
A small brown cricket revered in Japanese culture for its beautiful tinkling bell-like song. It has ...
Japanese Katydid
Gampsocleis buergeri
A large green katydid with a robust body and powerful jaws found across Japan. Its loud evening chir...
Javanese Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa orientalis
An East Asian mole cricket found in lowland rice paddies and moist agricultural soils across Japan, ...
Jerusalem Cricket
Stenopelmatus fuscus
A large, flightless insect with a round head and amber-banded abdomen found in western North America...
Kaempfer's Sawyer Cricket
Prophalangopsis obscura
A living fossil cricket from the mountains of northern India. Its family dates back to the Jurassic ...
Katanga Squeaker
Brachytrupes membranaceus
A very large burrowing cricket with a broad head and powerful jaws. It digs deep vertical burrows up...
Katydid
Pterophylla camellifolia
Nocturnal insects with leaf-shaped wings providing excellent camouflage. Named for their rhythmic "k...
King Cricket
Libanasidus vittatus
A large armored cricket that forages on forest floors and can bite through human skin....
Large Marsh Grasshopper
Stethophyma grossum
Europe's largest grasshopper, with bold red, yellow, and green colouring and bright red hindleg tibi...
Leaf-Rolling Cricket
Gryllacris signifera
A nocturnal raspy cricket that builds shelters by rolling and silking leaves together. During the da...
Leaf-rolling Cricket
Gryllacris sigillata
A large nocturnal cricket that silks together leaves to create a daytime retreat....
Lichen Katydid
Dysonia sp. (Dysonia magdalenae)
A Central American katydid with a mottled gray-green body that perfectly mimics lichen on bark. It i...
Lichen-Bark Katydid
Markia hystrix
A Neotropical katydid covered in spine-like projections that mimic lichen or moss. Its body is green...
Long-horned Grasshopper
Ruspolia nitidula
A cone-headed katydid with an elongated fastigium and long antennae. It can be green or brown. It is...
Mahoenui Giant Weta
Deinacrida mahoenui
A critically threatened giant weta originally surviving in a single patch of introduced gorse scrub....
Malabar Monkey Grasshopper
Eumastax nalandensis
A small, colorful grasshopper found in the Western Ghats of India, associated with monsoon forest ha...
Malagasy Litterhopper
Valalyllum folium
A recently described pygmy grasshopper from Madagascar known only from the Belanono forest. Its flat...
Malaysian Katydid
Ancylecha fenestrata
A large bright green katydid with a distinctive transparent window in each forewing. It is commonly ...
Matchstick Grasshopper
Eumastax vittata
A tiny colorful grasshopper with an extremely slender body resembling a matchstick....
Matchstick Grasshopper
Eumastacops brevipennis
An extremely thin grasshopper that resembles a twig or matchstick. Its narrow body provides excellen...
Meadow Grasshopper
Pseudochorthippus parallelus
A common European grasshopper with shortened wings that render it flightless. It produces a regular,...
Meadow Katydid
Conocephalus brevipennis
A small short-winged katydid found in moist meadows and bog margins....
Meadow Katydid
Conocephalus dorsalis
A small, slender katydid with a pointed head and long antennae. It has green coloring with a brown d...
Mercury Islands Tusked Weta
Motuweta isolata
One of New Zealands rarest insects, found only on Middle Mercury Island. Males have curved tusks on ...
Migratory Locust
Locusta migratoria
The most widespread locust species in the world, found across Africa, Asia, and Oceania. It exhibits...
Mole Cricket
Neocurtilla hexadactyla
A subterranean cricket with shovel-like forelegs for digging through moist soil....
Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Extraordinary burrowers with powerful shovel-like forelegs adapted for digging. Males construct horn...
Monkey Grasshopper
Paramastax nigra
A miniature grasshopper with bright metallic blue and orange coloration....
Mormon Cricket
Anabrus simplex
A large, flightless shield-backed katydid native to western North America. Despite its name it is no...
Moroccan Locust
Dociostaurus maroccanus
A small but destructive locust found in dry habitats across the Mediterranean and Central Asia. It f...
Moss Grasshopper
Batrachideinae sp. (Coscineuta coxalis)
A tiny pygmy grasshopper with an elongated pronotum covered in moss-like textures. It is practically...
Mount Kosciuszko Grasshopper
Kosciuscola cognatus
A small alpine grasshopper found only in the highest parts of the Australian Alps. It is closely rel...
Mountain Stone Weta
Hemideina maori
A freeze-tolerant weta found in alpine regions of New Zealand. It shelters under rocks and can survi...
Nelson Alpine Giant Weta
Deinacrida fallai
A giant weta found above the tree line in the mountains of northwest Nelson, New Zealand. Nocturnal ...
New Caledonian Giant Gecko Cricket
Pseudoplectus cornutus
A large raspy cricket endemic to New Caledonia with powerful jaws. It is nocturnal and hides in silk...
Oak Bush-cricket
Meconema thalassinum
A slender, pale green bush-cricket found in tree canopies. It is nocturnal and rarely flies despite ...
Oceanic Field Cricket
Teleogryllus oceanicus
A widespread Pacific cricket found from Australia to Hawaii with a loud, clear chirp. Some Hawaiian ...
Ornate Pygmy Grasshopper
Tetrix ornata
A tiny, intricately patterned groundhopper found on bare sandy soils in North American prairies and ...
Painted Grasshopper
Dactylotum bicolor
A strikingly colorful grasshopper with bold patterns of red, blue, black, and yellow. It is flightle...
Painted Grasshopper
Poekilocerus pictus
A strikingly colorful grasshopper with bright yellow and turquoise markings found in the Indian subc...
Pallid-Winged Grasshopper
Trimerotropis pallidipennis
A well-camouflaged band-winged grasshopper with pale translucent hindwings. It is one of the most co...
Peacock Katydid
Pterochroza ocellata
A large katydid that mimics dead leaves at rest but reveals huge eyespots on its hind wings when thr...
Pink Underwing Katydid
Amblycorypha oblongifolia
A North American katydid with bright green leaf-like forewings. Rare pink morphs occur naturally and...
Predatory Bush Cricket
Saga pedo
The largest European bush-cricket reaching up to 12cm. It is a formidable predator of other insects....
Predatory Katydid
Clonia melanoptera
A large predatory katydid with powerful spiny forelegs for catching insects....
Predatory Katydid
Chlorobalius leucoviridis
A green and brown katydid that mimics the wing-flick reply signals of female cicadas to lure male ci...
Proscopiid Stick Grasshopper
Proscopia scabra
An extremely elongated, wingless grasshopper that closely resembles a stick insect. Its thread-thin ...
Rainbow Grasshopper
Dactylotum variegatum
A small short-winged grasshopper brightly patterned in red, orange, blue, and black. Despite its viv...
Rapa Nui Cricket
Paratrigonidium rapanui
A tiny ground cricket endemic to Easter Island (Rapa Nui). It lives in leaf litter and stone crevice...
Raspy Cricket
Paragryllacris combusta
A large nocturnal cricket that builds silk-lined leaf nests. It has powerful jaws and long cerci. Du...
Raspy Cricket
Cooraboorama canberrae
A nocturnal wingless cricket that builds silk-lined shelters from folded leaves....
Raspy Cricket
Ametrus tibialis
A large nocturnal cricket with powerful mandibles and reddish-brown coloring. It shelters in silk-bo...
Red Locust
Nomadacris septemfasciata
A large brown and red locust that swarms periodically from outbreak areas in Central and Southern Af...
Roesel's Bush-cricket
Roeseliana roeselii
A stocky bush-cricket with a distinctive pale border along the pronotum. Its song is a continuous hi...
Rufous Grasshopper
Gomphocerippus rufus
A medium-sized grasshopper with distinctive white-tipped, club-shaped antennae. Males have reddish-b...
Saddle-backed Bush-cricket
Ephippiger ephippiger
A robust bush-cricket named for its saddle-shaped pronotum. It has vestigial wings used only for sou...
Saharan Sand Grasshopper
Sphingonotus octofasciatus
A pale sandy grasshopper well adapted to life on Saharan sand dunes. It has elongated hind legs for ...
Sand Field Cricket
Gryllus firmus
A large cricket occurring in two wing forms: long-winged fliers and short-winged non-fliers. This wi...
Sand Gropper
Cylindraustralia kochii
A bizarre cylindrical cricket adapted for burrowing in sandy soils in Australia....
Sand Treader Cricket
Ammobaenetes phrixocnemoides
A pale, wingless cricket highly adapted to life on desert sand dunes. Its oversized hind legs have p...
Scaly Cricket
Pseudomogoplistes vicentae
A tiny wingless cricket covered in iridescent scales. It lives on shingle beaches above the high-tid...
Scheltopusik Cave Cricket
Dolichopoda schiavazzii
A cave-dwelling cricket found in limestone caves of central Italy. It has extremely long antennae an...
Scree Weta
Deinacrida connectens
An alpine giant weta that lives among rocky scree fields at elevations above 1200 meters. It is rema...
Scudderia Katydid
Scudderia furcata
A slender, bright green fork-tailed bush katydid common in meadows and gardens. Its forked subgenita...
Senegalese Grasshopper
Oedaleus senegalensis
A small to medium grasshopper with an X-shaped marking on the pronotum and blue hindwings. It is an ...
Short-horned Grasshopper
Phymateus morbillosus
A toxic foam grasshopper that sequesters milkweed poisons and displays bright warning colors....
Slant-faced Grasshopper
Acrida ungarica
A striking grasshopper with an elongated, cone-shaped head and long antennae. It can be green or bro...
Slender Groundhopper
Tetrix subulata
A small, fully-winged pygmy grasshopper found near water in marshy and boggy habitats across the Nor...
Snowy Tree Cricket
Oecanthus fultoni
A pale green, delicate tree cricket known as the 'thermometer cricket.' Its chirp rate correlates pr...
Southern Mole Cricket
Neoscapteriscus borellii
A South American mole cricket that has become an invasive turf pest in the southern United States an...
Southern Oak Bush-Cricket
Meconema meridionale
A small, wingless relative of the oak bush-cricket that has rapidly spread northward across Europe, ...
Speckled Bush-Cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
A small, bright green bush-cricket covered in tiny dark speckles found across Europe. Its song is al...
Spiny Leaf Katydid
Panacanthus cuspidatus
A brightly colored Ecuadorian katydid covered in sharp spines for defense. Its green body with orang...
Spotted Camel Cricket
Ceuthophilus maculatus
A hump-backed wingless cricket with spotted brown coloring and very long hind legs. It is nocturnal ...
Stone Grasshopper
Prionotropis hystrix
A heavy-bodied flightless grasshopper that resembles a lichen-covered pebble....
Stone Grasshopper
Pamphagus marmoratus
A large stout grasshopper that perfectly resembles a piece of stone or bark. It is wingless with a h...
Stripe-winged Grasshopper
Stenobothrus lineatus
A colorful grasshopper with a distinctive white stripe along its forewing. Males perform elaborate c...
Sudan Plague Locust
Aiolopus simulatrix
A slender grasshopper of the Sahel zone that occasionally reaches plague densities after good rains....
Tawny Mole Cricket
Neoscapteriscus vicinus
An invasive burrowing cricket with tan coloring and powerful digging forelegs. It is a major turf pe...
Tenerife Cave Cricket
Petaloptila canariensis
A pale cave-dwelling cricket found in lava tubes on Tenerife. It has reduced eyes and elongated ante...
Tree Locust
Anacridium melanorhodon
A large grey-brown locust with distinctive vertical stripes on its eyes and a rough thorax crest. It...
Tree Weta
Hemideina crassidens
A large nocturnal insect with a heavily armored head and powerful mandibles. Males have enormously e...
Tree Weta
Hemideina thoracica
A common weta species found throughout the North Island of New Zealand. It shelters in tree holes du...
Tropical House Cricket
Gryllodes sigillatus
A small light brown cricket with dark bands on its head. It is widely bred as feeder insects for rep...
True Leaf Katydid
Pseudophyllus titan
A large katydid with broad green forewings that precisely mimic living leaves. The wing venation pat...
Two-Spotted Cricket
Gryllus bimaculatus
A large black cricket with two distinctive pale spots at the base of the forewings. It is widely use...
Two-spotted Groundhopper
Tetrix bipunctata
A montane pygmy grasshopper with two pale spots on its pronotum, found in upland rocky habitats acro...
Valley Jerusalem Cricket
Stenopelmatus pictus
A boldly banded Jerusalem cricket found in the arid valleys of California. Its large jaws can delive...
Variegated Grasshopper
Zonocerus variegatus
A brightly colored grasshopper with striking patterns of yellow, green, black, and orange. It feeds ...
Wart-biter Cricket
Decticus verrucivorus
A large bush-cricket with mottled green and brown coloring. Males produce a loud sustained song to a...
Wart-biting Bush-Cricket
Decticus albifrons
A large, pale bush-cricket of Mediterranean scrublands and dry grasslands with powerful mandibles. I...
Weta
Deinacrida heteracantha
Giant insects endemic to New Zealand, some of the heaviest in the world. Wetapunga can weigh up to 7...
White-Lined Sphinx Moth Hornworm
Cibolacris parviceps
A tiny, short-faced grasshopper adapted to the harshest parts of the Chihuahuan Desert. Its compact ...
Wingless Grasshopper
Phaulacridium vittatum
A small, common grasshopper found across Australia and New Zealand with reduced or absent wings. It ...
Zayante Band-winged Grasshopper
Trimerotropis infantilis
A small grasshopper found only in sand parkland habitats in Santa Cruz County, California. It is sup...