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List of experts

A number of leading orthopterists have taken responsibility to review information in their areas of expertise — taxonomic and/or geographic.  An explanation of participation in the development of the OSF is also available.  The following list combines taxonomic groups and geographic locations associated with the name of the expert orthopterist.

• Ensifera (extant)
  • Tettigonioidea
    • Tettigoniidae
      • Austrosaginae     David Rentz
      • Conocephalinae     Sigfrid Ingrisch
      • Listroscelidinae     David Rentz
      • Meconematinae     David Rentz
      • Microtettigoniinae     David Rentz
      • Phasmodinae     David Rentz
      • Pseudophyllinae     Holger Braun
      • Tympanophorinae     David Rentz
      • Zaprochilinae     David Rentz
    • Other families and subfamilies
      • Australia     David Rentz
      • Central and South America, and Subsaharan Africa     Piotr Naskrecki
      • America north of Mexico     Thomas Walker
  • Grylloidea
    • Gryllidae
      • Eneopterinae     Tony Robillard
    • Gryllotalpidae     Sam Heads
    • Other families and subfamilies
      • America north of Mexico     Thomas Walker
      • Australia and Caribbean area     Daniel Otte
    • Grylloidea not otherwise covered     Sam Heads
  • Ensifera of East Africa     Claudia Hemp
  • Ensifera not otherwise covered     Holger Braun
• Caelifera (extant)
  • Tetrigidae     Hendrik Devriese
  • Proscopiidae     Alba Bentos-Pereira
  • Eumastacidae
    • Eumastacinae (Central America)     Hugh Rowell
  • Tristiridae     María Marta Cigliano
  • Romaleidae
    • Romaleinae     Carlos Carbonell
  • Acrididae
    • Cyrtacanthacridinae     Hojun Song
    • Gomphocerinae of North America     Daniel Otte
    • Melanoplinae     María Marta Cigliano
    • Oedipodinae of North America     Daniel Otte
    • Rhytidochrotinae
      • Central America     Hugh Rowell
  • Tridactyloidea     Sam Heads
  • Acridomorpha not otherwise covered
    • Costa Rica and Panama     Hugh Rowell
  • Caelifera of East Africa     Claudia Hemp
  • Caelifera not otherwise covered     María Marta Cigliano
• Fossils     Sam Heads

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