| | | | Taxonomy for Orthoptera (Locusts) in Namibia | Class Namibia | Insecta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Insects) - Systematics 349 families, 2937 genera, 7318 species | Tree
| Subclass Namibia | Pterygota (Lang, 1888) (Winged insects) 347 families, 2922 genera, 7274 species | Tree
| Infraclass Namibia | Neoptera (Van Der Wulp, 1890) (Wing-folding insects) 331 families, 2842 genera, 7093 species | Tree
| Superorder Namibia | Polyneoptera (Martynov, 1923) 44 families, 260 genera, 483 species | Tree
| Order Namibia | Orthoptera (Latreille, 1793) (Locusts) - Systematics 18 families, 146 genera, 259 species | Site Tree
| Families | 104 worldwide | Genera | 6.263 worldwide | Species | 52.964 worldwide | Common names | Locusts, Grasshoppers, Katydids, Crickets, Wetas, Crickets and Katydids, Grasshppers and Crickets | German names | Heuschrecken, Springschrecken, Geradflügler, Kaukerfe | Dutch names | Krekels en sprinkhanen, Sprinkhanen en krekels | Danish names | Græshopper | Finnish names | Suorasiipiset | Norwegian names | Rettvinger | Swedish names | Hopprätvingar | French names | Orthoptères | Author | Latreille, 1793 | Distribution | Continents:
Eurasia (Asia, Europe, Russia, Caucasus)
America (North America, South America, Central America, Caribbean)
Africa (East Africa, Southern Africa, Central Africa, North Africa, West Africa)
Oceania (Australasia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia)
Antarctica (Subantarctic Islands)
Ecozones:
Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Indo-Australian region (Oriental, Malesia)
Fossils:
Cenozoic (Paleogene, Neogene, Quaternary)
Paleozoic (Cambrian, Permian, Carboniferous, Devonian)
Mesozoic (Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic)
World Oceans:
Pacific Ocean (South Pacific, Pacific Islands)
Atlantic Ocean (British overseas territory Atlantic)
Indian Ocean (Western Indian Ocean)
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| Suborder Namibia | Caelifera (Geoffroy, 1764) (Short-horned grasshoppers) 11 families, 112 genera, 189 species | Site | Suborder Namibia | Ensifera (Lesson, 1843) (Locusts) 7 families, 34 genera, 70 species | Site |
Family overview for Orthoptera (Locusts) in Namibia
| Acrididae (Macleay, 1819) - 118 Species | Short-horned grasshoppers | Euschmidtiidae (Rehn, 1948) - 3 Species | Gryllacrididae (Blanchard, 1845) - 1 Species | Leaf-rolling crickets | Gryllidae (Bolivar, 1878) - 16 Species | True Crickets | Lathiceridae (Dirsh, 1954) - 4 Species | Lentulidae (Dirsh, 1956) - 2 Species | Lentulid Grasshoppers | Lithidiidae (Dirsh, 1961) - 8 Species | Mogoplistidae (Saussure, 1877) - 4 Species | Scaly crickets | Pamphagidae (Burmeister, 1840) - 20 Species | Toad grasshoppers | Pamphagodidae (Bolivar, 1884) - 3 Species | Podoscirtidae (Saussure, 1878) - 3 Species | Pyrgomorphidae (Brunner Von Wattenwyl, 1874) - 14 Species | Pyrgomorphs | Schizodactylidae (Karny, 1927) - 6 Species | Dune crickets | Stenopelmatidae (Burmeister, 1838) - 2 Species | Jerusalem crickets | Tetrigidae (Rambur, 1838) - 4 Species | Groundhoppers | Tettigoniidae (Krauss, 1902) - 38 Species | Long-horned grasshoppers | Thericleidae (Burr, 1899) - 10 Species | Tridactylidae (Saussure, 1874) - 3 Species | Pygmy mole crickets | 18 Families with 259 Species in Namibia
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Species overview - Checklist for Orthoptera in Namibia
| Species with A | Next | | Acanthoplus discoidalis (Walker, 1869) | Setotojane | Info | Acanthoplus longipes (Charpentier, 1845) | Long-legged armoured katydid | Info | Acanthoproctus cervinus (Haan, 1842) | Antlered thorny katydid | Info | Acanthoproctus diadematus (Stål, 1858) | Namibia katydid | Info | Acanthoproctus elaphos -> Acanthoproctus cervinus | Info | Acocksacris carpi (Brown, 1962) | Info | Acocksacris karasensis (Brown, 1962) | Info | Acocksacris namibensis (Brown, 1962) | Info | Acophogryllus schultzei (Gorochov, 1996) | Info | Acorypha nigrovariegata (Bolivar, 1889) | Info | Acorypha nigrovariegata tibialis (Kirby, W.f., 1902) | Info | Acorypha pallidicornis (Stål, 1876) | Info | Acorypha pallidicornis pallidicornis (Stål, 1876) | Info | Acrida bicolor (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Acrida gigantea (Herbst, 1786) | Info | Acrida sulphuripennis (Gerstaecker, 1869) | Info | Acrida turrita (Linnaeus, 1758) | Long-headed grasshopper | Info | Acridoderes crassus (Bolivar, 1889) | Info | Acrotylus angulatus (Stål, 1876) | Info | Acrotylus apricarius (Stål, 1873) | Info | Acrotylus azureus (Uvarov, 1929) | Info | Acrotylus crassus (Saussure, 1884) | Info | Acrotylus diana (Karny, 1910) | Info | Acrotylus gracilis (La Greca, 1991) | Info | Acrotylus patruelis (Herrich-schaffer, 1838) | Slender Digging Grasshopper | Info | Afrotridactylus madecassus (Saussure, 1896) | Info | Afrotridactylus meridianus (Günther, 1994) | Info | Aiolopus thalassinus (Fabricius, 1781) | Grüne Strandschrecke | Info | Anabibia thoracica (Dirsh, 1956) | Info | Anacridium aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1764) | Egyptian Grasshopper | Site | Anacridium melanorhodon arabafrum (Dirsh & Uvarov, 1953) | Info | Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) | Info | Anaeolopus dorsalis (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Aprosphylus hybridus (Pictet, 1888) | Info | Arachnocephalus brincki (Chopard, 1955) | Info | Species with B | Back Next | Top | Barythericles pumila -> Barythericles pumilus | Info | Barythericles pumilus (Karny, 1910) | Info | Batrachidacris rubridens (Uvarov, 1929) | Info | Batrachornis peringueyi (Saussure, 1888) | Info | Batrachotetrix acutus (Saussure, 1888) | Info | Brachycrotaphus tryxalicerus (Fischer, 1853) | Savanna Grasshopper | Info | Brachyphymus vylderi (Stål, 1876) | Info | Brachyphymus vylderi tibialis (Karny, 1910) | Info | Brachyphymus vylderi vylderi (Stål, 1876) | Info | Brachytrupes membranaceus (Drury, 1770) | Info | Brainia holmi (Johnsen, 1987) | Info | Brownacris haackei (Brown, 1972) | Info | Brownacris namaquensis (Brown, 1972) | Info | Brownacris robusta (Brown, 1972) | Info | Species with C | Back Next | Top | Cardeniopsis nigropunctata (Bolivar, 1882) | Info | Cataloipus ambiguus (Stål, 1876) | Info | Catantopoides minutissimus (Johnsen, 1990) | Info | Catantops melanostictus (Schaum, 1853) | Info | Chrotogonus hemipterus (Schaum, 1853) | Info | Clonia caudata (Uvarov, 1942) | Info | Clonia vittata (Thunberg, 1789) | Info | Clonia wahlbergi -> Clonia zernyi wahlbergi | Info | Clonia zernyi wahlbergi (Stål, 1855) | Info | Comicus arenarius (Ramme, 1931) | Info | Comicus calaharicus (Irish, 1986) | Info | Comicus calcaris (Irish, 1986) | Info | Comicus campestris (Irish, 1986) | Info | Comicus capensis (Brunner Von Wattenwyl, 1888) | Info | Comicus carnalli (Irish, 1995) | Info | Conchotopoda belcki (Karsch, 1887) | Info | Conchotopoda leptocerca (Stål, 1876) | Info | Conchotopoda morsei (Karny, 1910) | Info | Conocephalus namibius (Gorochov, 2009) | Info | Cophogryllus brevicauda (Karny, 1910) | Info | Cophogryllus kuhlgatzi (Karny, 1908) | Info | Cophogryllus schultzei -> Acophogryllus schultzei | Info | Crypsicerus cubicus (Saussure, 1888) | Info | Crypsicerus glabra (Miller, 1932) | Info | Cryptocatantops debilis (Krauss, 1901) | Info | Cymatomera denticollis (Schaum, 1853) | Info | Cymatomera paradoxa (Gerstaecker, 1869) | Info | Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa (Stoll, 1813) | Info | Cyrtacanthacris tatarica (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | Cyrtacanthacris tatarica tatarica (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | Species with D | Back Next | Top | Damaracris rupestris (Brown, 1972) | Info | Depressotrella minuta (Gorochov, 2005) | Info | Depressotrella modulata (Gorochov, 2005) | Info | Dictyophorus spumans (Thunberg, 1787) | Koppie foam grasshopper | Info | Ducetia sagitta (Ragge, 1961) | Info | Duplessisia sulcata (Dirsh, 1956) | Info | Duronia chloronota (Stål, 1876) | Info | Species with E | Back Next | Top | Echinotropis horrida (Saussure, 1899) | Info | Echinotropis karasensis (Sjöstedt, 1932) | Info | Ectatoderus meridionalis (Karny, 1910) | Info | Eneremius mendax (Karny, 1910) | Info | Eneremius mutus (Saussure, 1888) | Info | Eucycloptilum longipes (Chopard, 1935) | Info | Eucycloptilum veali (Chopard, 1935) | Info | Eulioptera reticulata (Brunner Von Wattenwyl, 1878) | Info | Eulioptera reticulata reticulata (Brunner Von Wattenwyl, 1878) | Info | Eupropacris cylindricollis (Schaum, 1853) | Info | Eupropacris namaqua -> Eupropacris cylindricollis | Info | Eurycorypha brevicollis (Stål, 1876) | Info | Eurycorypha cuspidata (Krauss, 1901) | Info | Eurycorypha securifera (Brunner Von Wattenwyl, 1878) | Info | Euryphymus haematopus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | Euryphymus tuberculatus (Martínez Y Fernández-castillo, 1898) | Info | Species with G | Back Next | Top | Gastrimargus marmoratus (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Geloiomimus nasicus (Saussure, 1899) | Info | Griffiniana longipes (Naskrecki, 1994) | Long-winged Agile Katydid | Info | Griffiniana pedestris (Karny, 1910) | Info | Gryllodes sigillatus -> Gryllodes supplicans | Tropical house cricket | Info | Gryllodes supplicans (Walker, 1859) | Tropical House Cricket | Info | Gryllus bimaculatus -> Pternoscirta bimaculata | African field cricket | Info | Gryllus braueri (Karny, 1910) | Info | Gryllus namibius (Otte & Cade, 1984) | Info | Gryllus zaisi (Otte, Toms & Cade, 1988) | Info | Gymnobothrus temporalis (Stål, 1876) | Info | Gymnobothrus temporalis temporalis (Stål, 1876) | Info | Species with H | Back Next | Top | Hemiacris fervens (Walker, 1870) | Info | Hemicharilaus brunneri (Saussure, 1899) | Info | Hemicharilaus monomorphus (Uvarov, 1929) | Info | Hemihetrodes bachmanni (Karsch, 1887) | Bachmann´s Armoured Katydid | Info | Hemiloryma deserticola (Brown, 1973) | Info | Heteracris prasinata (Stål, 1876) | Info | Heteracris sjostedti -> Heteracris prasinata | Info | Hoplolopha asina (Saussure, 1887) | Info | Hoplolopha horrida (Burmeister, 1838) | Info | Hoplolopha karasensis (Sjöstedt, 1932) | Info | Hoplolopha serrata (Stål, 1875) | Info | Horatosphaga serrifera (Schaum, 1853) | Info | Horatosphaga stylifera (Karny, 1910) | Info | Horatosphaga vosseleri (Karny, 1910) | Info | Humbe tenuicornis (Schaum, 1853) | Info | Species with I | Back Next | Top | Icmalides browni (Descamps, 1977) | Info | Species with K | Back Next | Top | Kraussaria prasina (Walker, 1870) | Info | Kurtguentheria laciniosa (Gorochov, 1996) | Info | Species with L | Back Next | Top | Lamarckiana cucullata (Stoll, 1813) | Info | Lamarckiana sparrmani (Stål, 1876) | Info | Lathicerus cimex (Saussure, 1888) | Info | Leptoscirtus herero (Karny, 1910) | Info | Lithidiopsis carinatus (Dirsh, 1956) | Info | Lithidiopsis rugulosus (Dirsh, 1956) | Info | Lithidium desertorum (Brown, 1962) | Info | Lithidium punctifrons (Brown, 1962) | Info | Lithidium rubripes (Uvarov, 1929) | Info | Lobosceliana loboscelis (Schaum, 1853) | Info | Locusta cervinus -> Acanthoproctus cervinus | Info | Locustana pardalina (Walker, 1870) | Brown locust | Info | Species with M | Back Next | Top | Megalithericles coloratus (Descamps, 1977) | Info | Melidia brunneri (Stål, 1876) | Info | Mesopsis hessei (Uvarov, 1929) | Info | Mesopsis laticornis (Krauss, 1877) | Info | Microtmethis kuthyi (Karny, 1910) | Info | Morphacris fasciata (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Species with N | Back Next | Top | Neogryllopsis jordani (Otte, Toms & Cade, 1988) | Info | Neogryllopsis kuhlgatzi (Karny, 1910) | Info | Neogryllopsis ohopohoi (Otte, Toms & Cade, 1988) | Info | Nepiothericles puberulus (Stål, 1876) | Info | Species with O | Back Next | Top | Occidentula latens (Brown, 1967) | Info | Ochrophlegma violacea (Stål, 1876) | Info | Oedaleus nigrofasciatus (De Geer, 1773) | Info | Oedaleus plenus plenus (Walker, 1870) | Info | Ornithacris pictula magnifica (Bolivar, 1882) | Info | Orthochtha dasycnemis (Gerstaecker, 1869) | Info | Ovambohippus anderssoni (Brown, 1972) | Info | Species with P | Back Next | Top | Pagopedilum bradyana (Saussure, 1887) | Info | Paracharilaus curvicollis (Karny, 1910) | Info | Paracinema tricolor tricolor (Thunberg, 1815) | Vlei Grasshopper | Info | Parageloiomimus spinosus (Dirsh, 1956) | Info | Paragymnobothrus rectus (Karny, 1910) | Info | Paraxenotettix calcaratus (Uvarov, 1925) | Info | Phaeocatantops sulphureus (Walker, 1870) | Info | Phaeophilacris spectrum (Saussure, 1878) | Info | Phaneroptera nana (Fieber, 1853) | Mediterranean katydid | Info | Phaneroptera nana sparsa -> Phaneroptera sparsa | Info | Phaneroptera reticulata -> Eulioptera reticulata | Info | Phaneroptera sparsa (Stål, 1857) | Arabian Sickle Bush-cricket | Info | Phymateus baccatus -> Phymateus bolivari compressicollis | Info | Phymateus bolivari compressicollis (Bolivar, 1904) | Info | Phymateus morbillosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | Phymateus morbillosus morbillosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Common Milkweed Locust | Info | Phymateus viridipes (Stål, 1873) | Info | Phymateus viridipes viridipes (Stål, 1873) | Green Milkweed Locust | Info | Platypternodes brevipes (Stål, 1876) | Info | Plegmapteropsis gracilis (Dirsh, 1956) | Info | Pnorisa angulata (Karny, 1910) | Info | Pnorisa squalus (Stål, 1861) | Info | Pnorisa tricarinata -> Pnorisa squalus | Info | Porthetis carinata (Linnaeus, 1758) | Info | Pristocorypha turrigera (Rehn, 1940) | Info | Pseudoarcyptera crassicornis -> Rhaphotittha crassicornis | Info | Pseudoarcyptera platypternoides -> Rhaphotittha platypternoides | Info | Pseudogmothela rehni (Karny, 1910) | Info | Pseudogmothela stauronotus (Uvarov, 1921) | Info | Pseudosaga maculata (Karny, 1910) | Info | Pseudosaga maraisi (Naskrecki, 2003) | Marais´ Lace-winged Katydid | Info | Pseudothericles compressifrons (Stål, 1875) | Info | Pternoscirta bimaculata (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Puncticornia puncticornis (Stål, 1876) | Info | Pycnodictya herero (Karny, 1910) | Info | Pyrgomorpha granulata (Stål, 1875) | Info | Species with R | Back Next | Top | Rhachitopis brincki (Dirsh, 1956) | Info | Rhachitopis crassus (Walker, 1870) | Info | Rhachitopis curvipes (Stål, 1876) | Info | Rhachitopis curvipes curvipes (Stål, 1876) | Info | Rhachitopis curvipes marginellus (Karny, 1910) | Info | Rhachitopis curvipes similis (Naskrecki, 1992) | Info | Rhaphotittha crassicornis (Uvarov, 1929) | Info | Rhaphotittha platypternoides (Karny, 1910) | Info | Rhaphotittha vitripennis (Miller, 1932) | Info | Rupilius nigrosignatus (Stål, 1876) | Info | Species with S | Back Next | Top | Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål, 1775) | Desert locust | Info | Schistocerca gregaria flaviventris (Burmeister, 1838) | Info | Schistocerca gregaria gregaria (Forskål, 1775) | Desert Locust | Info | Scintharista magnifica (Uvarov, 1922) | Info | Scintharista saucia (Stål, 1873) | Info | Shelfordites aberrans (Karny, 1910) | Info | Sia kuhlgatzi (Karny, 1910) | Info | Sia pinguis (Walker, 1869) | Info | Spathosternum nigrotaeniatum (Stål, 1876) | Info | Sphingonotus lobutatus (Karny, 1910) | Info | Sphingonotus scabriculus (Stål, 1876) | Info | Sphodromerus gilli (Uvarov, 1929) | Info | Sphodromerus violaceipennis (Ramme, 1929) | Info | Stenohippus angulatus (Karny, 1910) | Info | Stenothericles porcellus (Miller, 1936) | Info | Stictogryllacris lyrata (Kirby, 1899) | Info | Stolliana sabulosa (Stål, 1875) | Info | Symbellia citrea (Karny, 1910) | Info | Symbellia conspersa (Karny, 1910) | Info | Symbellia stigmatica (Karny, 1910) | Info | Species with T | Back Next | Top | Tanita stulta (Bolivar, 1912) | Info | Tanitella sanderi (Krauss, 1901) | Info | Terpnistria lobulata (Stål, 1876) | Info | Terpnistria zebrata (Serville, 1838) | Info | Tettiella latipes (Stål, 1877) | Info | Thericles maculipes (Descamps, 1977) | Info | Thericles miserabilis (Descamps, 1977) | Info | Thericles obtusifrons (Stål, 1875) | Info | Thyridota curtifrons (Johnsen, 1991) | Info | Thyridota dispar (Uvarov, 1925) | Info | Thyridota nasuta (Johnsen, 1991) | Info | Trachypetrella anderssoni (Stål, 1875) | Info | Trachypetrella anderssonii (Stål, 1875) | Info | Trachytettix bufo bufo (Costa, O.g., 1864) | Info | Trachytettix scaberrimus (Stål, 1876) | Info | Trachytettix scaberrimus scaberrimus (Stål, 1876) | Info | Trilophidia namibica (La Greca, 1991) | Info | Truxalis burtti (Dirsh, 1950) | Info | Truxalis nasuta -> Truxalis viridifasciata | Info | Truxalis viridifasciata (Krauss, 1902) | Info | Truxaloides braziliensis (Drury, 1770) | Info | Truxaloides braziliensis braziliensis (Drury, 1773) | Info | Truxaloides serratus (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Tylopsis continua (Walker, 1869) | Info | Tylotropidius didymus (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Species with V | Back Next | Top | Vansoniacris rubricornis (Dirsh, 1958) | Info | Vitticatantops capicola (Stål, 1861) | Info | Vitticatantops humeralis (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Species with X | Back Next | Top | Xenocymochtha barkeri (Popov & Fishpool, 1992) | Info | Xya maraisi (Günther, 1998) | Info | Species with Z | Back | Top | Zonocerus elegans (Thunberg, 1815) | Info | Zonocerus elegans elegans (Thunberg, 1815) | Elegant Grasshopper | Info | 259 Species in Orthoptera for Namibia listed |
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| | Taxonomy | Class | Insecta Insects, True insects | Subclass | Pterygota Winged insects | Infraclass | Neoptera Wing-folding insects | Superorder | Polyneoptera | Order | Orthoptera Locusts, Grasshoppers, Katydids, Crickets, Wetas, Crickets and Katydids, Grasshppers and Crickets | Author | Latreille, 1793 | | Synonyms | Dictyoptera (Latreille, 1829) Saltatoria (Webster, 1913) |
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