Orthoptera Species File Online

David C. Eades, Principal Database Developer,   Illinois Natural History Survey Daniel Otte, Founder and Principal Author,   Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia María Marta Cigliano, Author,   División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Argentina Holger Braun, Author,   División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Argentina Major Contributors:   Sam Heads, Illinois Natural History Survey   Piotr Naskrecki, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University List of experts With the cooperation of       The Orthopterists' Society

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 25,990 valid species, 43,140 scientific names, 179,600 citations to 12,400 references, 75,600 images, 480 sound recordings, 86,100 specimen records, and keys to 2,870 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

• Getting started
• User interface
• Links to other websites
• About this website and the underlying database
• Grants
• Educational exercises / Ejercicios educativos
• Duplicate database to practice editing

Please send comments and questions about the database to María Marta Cigliano (send mail) or its development to David Eades (send mail).  When referencing this website, please use the following format:  Eades, D.C.; D. Otte; M.M. Cigliano & H. Braun. Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0/5.0.  [retrieval date]. <http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org>.  Use http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org to bookmark the OSF website.