The superfamily Hagloidea are
insect
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s belonging to the order
Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – gras ...
:
Ensifera
Ensifera is a Order (biology), suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies, including cricket (insect), true crickets, Rhaphidophoridae, camel crickets, Tettigoniidae, bush crickets or katydids, Prophalangops ...
; they are now represented by the extant
Prophalangopsidae
The family Prophalangopsidae are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera. They are the only extant members of the superfamily Hagloidea. There is only one extant genus in North America, where they are known as grigs, four genera in Asia, and ...
, with many
extinct
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genera and families (see below). The group in its broad sense has been suggested to be
paraphyletic
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and ancestral to all other members of
Tettigoniidea.
Families
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Eospilopteronidae
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Haglidae
The superfamily Hagloidea are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera: Ensifera; they are now represented by the extant Prophalangopsidae, with many extinct genera and families (see below). The group in its broad sense has been suggested to be ...
* †
Hagloedischiidae
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Prezottophlebiidae
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Prophalangopsidae
The family Prophalangopsidae are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera. They are the only extant members of the superfamily Hagloidea. There is only one extant genus in North America, where they are known as grigs, four genera in Asia, and ...
* †
Tuphellidae
* ''incertae sedis''
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Tzetzenulia''
References
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Insect superfamilies
Ensifera