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Caelifera
| Caelifera Temporal range:
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| A pygmy mole-cricket | |
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| Red-legged grasshopper | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera Ander, 1939 |
| Infraorders[1] | |
The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects.[2] They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea). The latter should not be confused with the mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae), which belong to the other Orthopteran sub-order Ensifera.
The name of this suborder comes from Latin meaning chisel-bearing ("chisel" in Latin: caelum),[3] referring to the "stout" shape of its species' ovipositors.[4]
- ^ ITIS: Caelifera (retrieved 2 August 2017)
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
TOLwebwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879). "caelum". A Latin Dictionary. Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ Himmelman, John (2011). Cricket Radio. Harvard University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-674-06102-6. Archived from the original on 27 November 2017.
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