| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - Arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - Insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Polyneoptera |
| order | Orthoptera - grasshoppers, crickets and katydids |
| suborder | Ensifera - long-horned grasshoppers |
| superfamily | Tettigonioidea Krauss, 1902 |
| family | Tettigoniidae Krauss, 1902 - katydids crickets |
| subfamily | Tettigoniinae Stoll, C., 1787 |
| tribus | Decticini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 |
| genus | Decticus Serville, 1831 |
| species | Decticus verrucivorus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Wart-biter |