Tetrigidae

Tetrigidae is a family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called grouse locusts, pygmy locusts, groundhoppers or pygmy grasshoppers. There are roughly 1,600 species in about 250 genera altogether.

Tetrigidae
Tetrix species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Superfamily:	Tetrigoidea
Family:	Tetrigidae

Tetrigidae Media

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  A typical Tetrigid species that commonly inhabits arid banks of water bodies in Southern Africa. Lateral aspect, showing how the pronotum covers the hind wings. The vestigial tegmen is visible just above the anterior coxa.

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  Tetrigidae Dorsal aspect. The same specimen from above. In both pictures note the unusually heavy structure of the posterior femur, and the correspondingly massive pulley-like femoro-tibial joint, similar to the anatomy of the Tridactylidae.

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  Paratettix aztecus eating algae

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  Potua morbillosa (Borneo)

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  Holocerus taurus (with red mites, Madagascar)

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  Rostella phyllocera (Borneo)

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  Discotettix belzebuth (Scelimeninae)

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  Paratettix,Tetrigidae

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  Tripetalocera ferruginea