Ensifera is a suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies, including true crickets, camel crickets, bush crickets or katydids, grigs, wētā, and Cooloola monsters.

The sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera), also known as the swordbill, is a neotropical species of hummingbird from the Andean regions of South America. It is the only member in the genus Ensifera.

Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "long-horned" orthopterans commonly known as crickets, katydids (or bush crickets), and weta, and characterized in extant members by long, fine, and threadlike antennae that have well over 30 segments and

Jun 9, 2014 · Among the Ensifera are the most musical of "singing insects". Many species are loved (or hated) for the "songs" they produce, and in some parts of the world there is a long-standing tradition of keeping various Ensiferans (particularly certain Crickets or Katydids) as pets.

The word has been used in combination to describe more distantly related taxa [3] in the suborder Ensifera, such as king crickets and mole crickets. Crickets have mainly cylindrically shaped bodies, round heads, and long antennae. Behind the head is a smooth, robust pronotum.

Apr 8, 2015 · The Ensifera includes the crickets and katydids and their relatives; the Caelifera includes the grasshoppers and locusts and their relatives. The members within each of these groups descended from a common ancestor unique to that suborder — what evolutionary biologists call a monophyletic group, or clade.

Ensifera is a suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets, katydids, grigs, wetas and Cooloola monsters. It and the suborder Caelifera (the grasshoppers and locusts) make up the order Orthoptera.

Ensifera is a suborder of Orthoptera. There are 15133 species of Ensifera, in 2181 genera and 16 families. This suborder has been around since the pennsylvanian sub-period. It includes groups like Vitimiidae and Raphoglidae. Reproduction is oviparous. They are fast moving animals.

Ensifera (katydids, crickets, and their relatives) range from herbivorous, to omnivorous, to strictly predaceous. Some katydids specialize on somewhat unique food sources, for example, members of the Australian genus Zaprochilus feed exclusively on pollen and nectar of flowers.

Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera. It includes the insects commonly known as crickets, katydids and bush crickets. "Ensifer" means "sword bearer" in Latin, and refers to the long and blade-like ovipositor of the females.