Orthoptera (Hoppers, Roaches, Katydids, Mantids, Walking Sticks)
of Orange County, California

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Yellow background, exotic to California and/or North America.

Photographed and compiled by Peter J. Bryant (pjbryant@uci.edu)
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, 
University of California, Irvine, CA
92697
and Ron Hemberger  

Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae)

Painted meadow grasshopper, Chimarocephala pacifica

Slant-faced Grasshopper,
Chloealtis gracilis

Cream grasshopper,
Cibolacris parviceps

Saussure's Desert Grasshopper,
Derotmema saussureanum

California Rose-Winged Grasshopper, Dissosteira pictipennis

Sierran White-whiskered Grasshopper, Eupnigodes sierranus

Banded-winged Grasshopper,
Lactista gibbosus

Blue-winged Grasshopper,
Leprus intermedius


Spur-throated Grasshopper, Melanoplus yarrowii

Spur-throated Grasshopper, Melanoplus cinereus cyanipes

Devastating Grasshopper, Melanoplus devastator

Short-horned Grasshopper, Melanoplus sp.

Slant-faced Grasshopper,
Psoloessa texana

Gray Bird Grasshopper, Schistocerca nitens

Green Bird Grasshopper, Schistocerca shoshone

Pallid-winged Grasshopper, Trimerotropis pallidipennis
       
American Roaches (Blattidae)   Ectobiidae (=Blatellidae) Sand Cockroaches (Corydiidae)

Oriental cockroach,
Blatta orientalis

American cockroach,
Periplaneta americana
 


American Wood Cockroach, Parcoblatta americana


Sand Cockroach,
Arenivaga gaiophanes
Crickets (Gryllidae)

Aboreal Camel Cricket, Gammarotettix sp.

Tropical House Cricket,
Gryllodes sigillatus

Tropical House Cricket,
Gryllodes supplicans

Field Cricket,
Gryllus sp.

Snowy Tree Cricket,
Oecanthus fultoni

Walking Sticks (Diapheromera)

     

Gray Walking Stick,
Pseudosermyle straminea
       
Walking Sticks
(Heteronemiidae)
Scaly Crickets
(Mogoplistidae)
Camel Crickets (Rhaphidophoridae)

Indian Stick Insect,
Carausius morosus

Western Shorthorned Walkingstick, Parabacillus hesperus

Scaly Cricket,
Hoplosphyrum boreale

California Camel Cricket, Ceuthophilus (californianus?)

Camel Cricket,
Pristoceuthophilus sp.
Lubber Grasshoppers
(Romaleidae)
Jerusalem Crickets (Stenopelmatidae) Grouse and pygmy grasshoppers
(Tetrigidae)

Dragon Lubber Grasshopper, Dracotettix monstrosus

Jerusalem Cricket,
Stenopelmatus sp.
 
Pygmy Grasshopper,
Paratettix mexicanus

Pygmy Grasshopper
Katydids (Tettigoniidae)

California Katydid,
Idiostatus aequalis

(Nymph) Broad-winged Katydid, Microcentrum californicum

Broad-winged Katydid, Microcentrum rhombifolium

Shield-back Katydid,
Neduba morsei

Shield-back Katydid,
Neduba sp.

Conehead Katydid, Neoconocephalus robustus

Mediterranean Katydid, Phaneroptera nana

False Katydid,
Platylyra californica

Fork-tailed Bush Katydid,
Scudderia furcata

Mexican Bush Katydid,
Scudderia mexicana
Walking Sticks (Timematidae)      

Walking Stick, Timema podura
       
Mantids (Mantidae)

Minor Ground Mantid,
Litaneutria pacifica

California Mantid,
Stagmomantis californica, male

California Mantid,
Stagmomantis californica, female

California Mantid,
Stagmomantis californica, female

Bordered Mantis,
Stagmomantis limbata