Abstract
Orthoptera comprises popularly known insects like crickets, locusts, grasshoppers, katydids and weta. This order has 27 thousand described species divided into two suborders, Caelifera and Ensifera, recognized as monophyletic. In Ensifera, the infraorder Gryllidea, taxon that comprises all the crickets, is monophyletic and divided into two superfamilies, Gryllotalpoidea and Grylloidea. Th…