Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets (Orthoptera)
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Suborder: Short-horned Orthoptera (Caelifera)
Family: Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae)
Differential Grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis
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Subfamily: Migratory Bird Locusts (Cyrtacanthacridinae)
American Bird Grasshopper Schistocerca americana
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Subfamily: Band-winged Grasshoppers (Oedipodinae)
Autumn Yellow-winged Grasshopper Arphia xanthoptera
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Suborder: Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera)
Family: Tree Crickets (Oecanthidae)
Two-spotted Tree Cricket Neoxabea bipunctata
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Family: Katydids (Tettigoniidae)
Subfamily: False Katydids (Phaneropterinae)
Angle-wing Katydid Microcentrum retinerve
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Family: Ground and Winged Bush Crickets (Trigonidiidae)
Subfamily: Ground Crickets (Nemobiinae)
Striped Ground Cricket Allonemobius fasciatus
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