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| Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) | |
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| Superfamily: | Tettigonioidea |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
The family Tettigoniidae, known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets, contains more than 6,400 species. It is part of the suborder Ensifera.
They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, though they are more closely related to crickets than to grasshoppers.Their antennae may be longer than their own body length, those of the grasshoppers are always relatively short.
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