Representative pictures of orders of Hexapods

    Pterygota (Infraclass Neoptera)

  Superorder Orthopteroidea
        Order Blattodea  -- Roaches

© Dept. of Entomology, University of Nebraska -- Lincoln

        Order Mantodea  -- Mantids, Mantises

© 1999 California Academy of Sciences

        Order Isoptera  -- Termites

     Worker                                Nasute Soldier

© Gerald Lenhard                        © 2003 Alex Wild

       Winged Reproductives

        © Gerald Lenhard

        Order Grylloblattodea  -- Rock Crawlers (Ice Crawlers)

    © 2003 Alex Wild

        Order Dermaptera  -- Earwigs

        Order Plecoptera  -- Stoneflies

    © 1996, Riley Nelson

        Order Embiidina  -- Webspinners

        Order Orthoptera  -- Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids, etc.
        Suborder Caelifera  -- the Grasshoppers and Locusts

       Acrididae © 1996, James K. Adams

        Suborder Ensifera  -- Katydids and Crickets

            Tettigoniidae  © 1996, James K. Adams       Katydid


     Gryllidae Cricket,   © 2005 Robin McLeod                   Gryllotalpidae       Mole Cricket

 Oecanthidae (or the subfamily Oecanthinae
    in the Gryllidae)           Tree Cricket  (Bugguide.net)

        Order Phasmatodea (or Phasmida)  -- Walkingsticks, Leaf Insects

     © 1996, Erich Tilgner        Walkingsticks  Mating                         Leaf Insect