Caelifera comprehendunt 2400 feregenera descripta et 12 000 ferespecierum notarum. Multae species non dum descriptae ut videtur existunt, praecipue insilvis pluvialibus. Caeliferis, ut quidem plurimis orthopteris, estdistribitio plerumquetropica, paucioribus speciebus inregionibustemperatis inventis. Caelifera in duosinfraordines digeruntur: Tridactylidea (basaliora) et Acrididea.Nomenacrididea ex veterioribus fontibus derivatur, sicut operibusAugusti Danielis Imms.[3]
Phylogenia Caeliferorum, secundumRNAribosomatismitochondriorum triginta duarum taxonorum, in sex ex septem superfamiliis utcladogramma infra monstratur. Ensifera, Caelifera, et omnes acridideorum superfamiliae praeter Pamphagoidea monophyleticae videntur.[10][11]
↑Flook, P. K.; Rowell, C. H. F. (1997). "The Phylogeny of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) as Deduced from mtrRNA Gene Sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution8 (1): 89–103.
↑Flook, P.K.; Rowell, C.H.F. (1997). "The Phylogeny of the Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) as Deduced from mtrRNA Gene Sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution8 (1): 89–103.
↑Zhang, Hong-Li; Huang, Yuan; Lin, Li-Liang; Wang, Xiao-Yang; Zheng, Zhe-Min (2013). "The phylogeny of the Orthoptera (Insecta) as deduced from mitogenomic gene sequences". Zoological Studies52: 37.