long-horned grasshopper

Synonyms:

tettigoniid

Types:

katydid

large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings

Jerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus fuscus, sand cricket

large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States

Anabrus simplex, mormon cricket

large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States

Type of:

grasshopper, hopper

terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping