Sword-tail cricket
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The sword-tail crickets are insects of the order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...

 Orthoptera
Orthoptera
Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...

, in which they belong to the suborder Ensifera
Ensifera
Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising insects commonly known as crickets, katydids and bush crickets. "Ensifer" means "sword bearer" in Latin, and refers to the typically elongated and blade-like ovipositor of the females...

 like all true crickets
Cricket (insect)
Crickets, family Gryllidae , are insects somewhat related to grasshoppers, and more closely related to katydids or bush crickets . They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. There are about 900 species of crickets...

 (Gryllidae). They make up the subfamily Trigonidiinae.

Genera

  • Amusurgus
  • Anacyrtoxipha
  • Anaxipha
  • Anaxiphomorpha
  • Cyrtoxipha
  • Cyrtoxiphoides
  • Dolichoxipha
  • Estrellina
  • Falcicula
  • Hebardinella
  • Homoeoxipha
  • Hydropedeticus
  • Jarmilaxipha
  • Laupala
  • Lobeda
  • Macroanaxipha
  • Metiochodes
  • Natula
  • Paratrigonidium
  • Prolaupala
  • Rhicnogryllus
  • Symphyloxiphus
  • Trigonidium
  • Zarceomorpha
  • Zarceus

Some prehistoric genera
Genera
Genera is a commercial operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments...

 only known from fossil
Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...

s have also been described:
  • Abanaxipha
  • Grossoxipha
  • Proanaxipha
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