Species list, Checklist of Superorder Polyneoptera for Northern Orkney Islands (Orkney Islands, United Kingdom)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Superorder Polyneoptera Martynov, 1923
and region Northern Orkney Islands (Orkney Islands, United Kingdom)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	74 147 208	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	74 147 208	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	67 133 195	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Polyneoptera Martynov, 1923	3 5 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Northern Orkney Islands
3 Families width 5 Species

Forficulidae Stephens, 1829	Common Earwig	1	Species	Taxom
Tettigoniidae Krauss, 1902	Bush crickets	2	Species	Taxom
Acrididae MacLeay, 1819	Grasshoppers and locusts	2	Species	Taxom

Genera for Northern Orkney Islands
5 Genera with 5 Species

Forficula Linnaeus, 1758	1	Species	Taxom
Leptophyes Fieber, 1792	1	Species	Taxom
Meconema Serville, 1773	1	Species	Taxom
Omocestus Bolivar, 1893	1	Species	Taxom
Pseudochorthippus Defaut, 1821	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Northern Orkney Islands
5 Species

Forficula auricularia Carolus Linn..., 1758	Common earwig
Leptophyes punctatissima Bosc, 1792	Climbing locust
Meconema thalassinum De Geer, 1773	Drumming katydid
Omocestus (Omocestus) viridulus Sahlberg, 1893	Common green grasshopper
Pseudochorthippus parallelus Zetterstedt, 1821	Meadow Grasshopper

Subnodes of Polyneoptera with occurrences in Northern Orkney Islands

Order	Dermaptera De Geer, 1773 Dermapterans, Earwig, Earwigs, Pincerbugs	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Order	Orthoptera Latreille, 1793 Crickets And Grasshoppers, Katydids, Locusts, Wetas	2 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Polyneoptera at itis.gov