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Ensifera, the Glossary

Ensifera is a suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies including: true crickets, camel crickets, bush crickets or katydids, grigs, weta and Cooloola monsters.^[1]

57 relations: Acrididea, Anelcanidae, Anostostomatidae, Ant cricket, Antenna (biology), Artinskian, Baissogryllidae, Caelifera, Carboniferous, Cladogram, Cooloola (insect), Cricket (insect), Crown group, Elcanidae, Gonopore, Gryllacrididae, Gryllidae, Gryllidea, Grylloidea, Gryllotalpoidea, Hagloidea, Holocene, Incertae sedis, Insect, Kungurian, Latin, Mogoplistidae, Mole cricket, Namurian, Nuptial gift, Order (biology), Orthoptera, Ovipositor, Palaeorehniidae, Permian, Phalangopsidae, Phylogenetic tree, Polyneoptera, Prophalangopsidae, Protein, Protogryllidae, Pterygota, Rhaphidophoridae, Schizodactylidae, Scientific Reports, Spermatophore, Spermatophylax, Stenopelmatidae, Stenopelmatoidea, Tetrigidae, ... Expand index (7 more) »
Cisuralian first appearances
Extant Permian first appearances
Insect suborders

Acrididea

Acrididea including the Acridomorpha is an infraorder of insects that describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) and ground-hoppers.

See Ensifera and Acrididea

Anelcanidae

Anelcanidae is an extinct family of long-horned Orthoptera.

See Ensifera and Anelcanidae

Anostostomatidae

Anostostomatidae is a family of insects in the order Orthoptera, widely distributed in the southern hemisphere.

See Ensifera and Anostostomatidae

Ant cricket

The Myrmecophilidae or ant-loving crickets are rarely encountered relatives of mole crickets.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

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Artinskian

In the geologic timescale, the Artinskian is an age or stage of the Permian.

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Baissogryllidae

Baissogryllidae is an extinct family of crickets in the order Orthoptera.

See Ensifera and Baissogryllidae

Caelifera

The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. Ensifera and Caelifera are extant Permian first appearances and insect suborders.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Cooloola (insect)

Cooloola is a genus of ensiferan orthopterans known as Cooloola monsters.

See Ensifera and Cooloola (insect)

Cricket (insect)

Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers.

See Ensifera and Cricket (insect)

Crown group

In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor.

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Elcanidae

Elcanidae are an extinct family of Mesozoic and early Cenozoic orthopterans.

See Ensifera and Elcanidae

Gonopore

A gonopore, sometimes called a gonadopore, is a genital pore in many invertebrates.

See Ensifera and Gonopore

Gryllacrididae

Gryllacrididae are a family of non-jumping insects in the suborder Ensifera occurring worldwide, known commonly as leaf-rolling crickets or raspy crickets.

See Ensifera and Gryllacrididae

Gryllidae

The family Gryllidae contains the subfamilies and genera which entomologists now term true crickets.

See Ensifera and Gryllidae

Gryllidea

Gryllidea is an infraorder that includes crickets and similar insects in the order Orthoptera.

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Grylloidea

Grylloidea is the superfamily of insects, in the order Orthoptera, known as crickets.

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Gryllotalpoidea

The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the mole crickets and the ant crickets.

See Ensifera and Gryllotalpoidea

Hagloidea

The superfamily Hagloidea are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera: Ensifera; they are now represented by the extant Prophalangopsidae, with many extinct genera and families (see below).

See Ensifera and Hagloidea

Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Incertae sedis

of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Kungurian

In the geologic timescale, the Kungurian is an age or stage of the Permian.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Mogoplistidae

Mogoplistidae is a family of scaly crickets within the superfamily Grylloidea.

See Ensifera and Mogoplistidae

Mole cricket

Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets).

See Ensifera and Mole cricket

Namurian

The Namurian is a stage in the regional stratigraphy of northwest Europe, with an age between roughly 331 and 319 Ma (million years ago).

See Ensifera and Namurian

Nuptial gift

Formally, a nuptial gift is a material presentation to a recipient by a donor during or in relation to sexual intercourse that is not simply gametes in order to improve the reproductive fitness of the donor.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.

See Ensifera and Orthoptera

Ovipositor

The ovipositor is a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of eggs.

See Ensifera and Ovipositor

Palaeorehniidae

''Republicopteron douseae''Klondike Mountain Formation Palaeorehniidae is an extinct family of katydid-like orthopterans that has been described from the fossil record.

See Ensifera and Palaeorehniidae

Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

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Phalangopsidae

The Phalangopsidae are a recently reconstituted family of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera), based on the type genus Phalangopsis Serville, 1831 from South America.

See Ensifera and Phalangopsidae

Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.

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Polyneoptera

The cohort Polyneoptera is one of the major groups of winged insects, comprising the Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, etc.) and all other neopteran insects believed to be more closely related to Orthoptera than to any other insect orders.

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Prophalangopsidae

The family Prophalangopsidae are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera. Ensifera and Prophalangopsidae are extant Permian first appearances.

See Ensifera and Prophalangopsidae

Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Protogryllidae

Protogryllidae is an extinct family of crickets in the order Orthoptera.

See Ensifera and Protogryllidae

Pterygota

The Pterygota (winged) are a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and the orders that are secondarily wingless (that is, insect groups whose ancestors once had wings but that have lost them as a result of subsequent evolution).

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Rhaphidophoridae

The orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae of the suborder Ensifera has a worldwide distribution.

See Ensifera and Rhaphidophoridae

Schizodactylidae

Schizodactylidae is a family of orthopteran insects found in Asia and southern Africa, known as dune crickets or splay-footed crickets.

See Ensifera and Schizodactylidae

Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences.

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Spermatophore

A spermatophore or sperm ampulla is a capsule or mass containing spermatozoa created by males of various animal species, especially salamanders and arthropods, and transferred in entirety to the female's ovipore during reproduction.

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Spermatophylax

A spermatophylax is a gelatinous bolus which some male insects eject during copulation with females through their aedeagi together with spermatophores, and which functions as a nutritive supplement for the female.

See Ensifera and Spermatophylax

Stenopelmatidae

Stenopelmatidae is a family of large, mostly flightless orthopterans that includes the Jerusalem crickets.

See Ensifera and Stenopelmatidae

Stenopelmatoidea

Stenopelmatoidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Orthoptera; in some older classifications this group was referred to as Gryllacridoidea.

See Ensifera and Stenopelmatoidea

Tetrigidae

Tetrigidae is an ancient family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes similar families such as crickets, grasshoppers, and their allies.

See Ensifera and Tetrigidae

Tettigoniidae

Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America) or bush crickets.

See Ensifera and Tettigoniidae

Tettigoniidea

Tettigoniidea is an infraorder of the order Orthoptera, with six extant families.

See Ensifera and Tettigoniidea

Thueringoedischiidae

Thueringoedischiidae is an extinct family of long-horned Orthoptera.

See Ensifera and Thueringoedischiidae

Tridactyloidea

Tridactyloidea is a superfamily in the order Orthoptera.

See Ensifera and Tridactyloidea

Trigonidiidae

The Trigonidiidae are a family of crickets consisting of two subfamilies.

See Ensifera and Trigonidiidae

Tympanal organ

A tympanal organ (or tympanic organ) is a hearing organ in insects, consisting of a membrane (tympanum) stretched across a frame backed by an air sac and associated sensory neurons.

See Ensifera and Tympanal organ

Wētā

Wētā (also spelt weta in English) is the common name for a group of about 100 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae endemic to New Zealand.

See Ensifera and Wētā

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensifera

Also known as Ensiferan.

, Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniidea, Thueringoedischiidae, Tridactyloidea, Trigonidiidae, Tympanal organ, Wētā.

Ensifera, the Glossary

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See also

Cisuralian first appearances

Extant Permian first appearances

Insect suborders

References