Click on picture to see and hear slow motion stridulation of Neoconocephalus affinis (Copyright © Fernando Montealegre-Z & Thorin Jonsson). [It may take up to a minute to initialize.]
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David C. Eades, Principal Database Developer,
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Illinois Natural History Survey
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Daniel Otte, Founder and Principal Author,
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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María Marta Cigliano, Author,
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División Entomología, Museo de La Plata,
Argentina
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Holger Braun, Author,
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División Entomología, Museo de La Plata,
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Major Contributors:
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Sam Heads, Illinois Natural History Survey
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Piotr Naskrecki, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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The Orthoptera Species File is a taxonomic database of the world's Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets), both living and fossil. It has full synonymic and taxonomic information for more than 25,290 valid species, 42,290 scientific names, 164,100 citations to 12,400 references, 68,200 images, 188 sound recordings, 77,000 specimen records, and keys to 2,800 taxa.
To see information contained in the database, use the links across the top of the
page. Click on
Search to find a specific taxon or other kinds of information. Clicking
on Taxa will make the
order Orthoptera your current taxon unless you have previously moved to a different
taxon in this session.
This website and database use Species File Software. Information about the
design and use of SFS may be found on a separate website.
Other Places to Start
Please send comments and questions about the database and its development to David
Eades (send
mail). When referencing this website, please use the following format:
Eades, D.C. & D. Otte. Orthoptera Species File
Online. Version
2.0/4.0. [retrieval date].
<http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org>. Use http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org to bookmark the OSF
website.
List of Experts
A number of leading orthopterists have taken responsibility to review information
in their areas of expertise — taxonomic and/or geographic. An explanation
of participation in the development of the OSF
is also available. The following list combines taxonomic groups and geographic
locations associated with the name of the expert orthopterist.
- Ensifera (extant)
- Tettigonioidea
- Tettigoniidae
- Other families and subfamilies
- Grylloidea
- Gryllotalpidae Sam
Heads
- Other families and subfamilies
- Grylloidea not otherwise covered Sam
Heads
- Ensifera not otherwise covered Holger
Braun
- Caelifera (extant)
- Fossils Sam
Heads
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