{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | name =Hooded grasshopper | display_parents=4 | image =Hooded_Grasshoper_by_Abhimanyu_Aradhya.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Teratodes | authority=Brullé, 1835 | synonyms = }}
'''''Teratodes''''' is the type genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Teratodinae; species are native to India and Sri Lanka and are sometimes known as '''hooded grasshoppers'''.<ref name=OSF/> It was established by the French entomologist Gaspard Auguste Brullé in 1835.<ref name=OSF>{{cite web|url=https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/820510/overview|title=''Teratodes'' Brullé, 1835|author1=David C. Eades |author2=Daniel Otte |author3=María Marta Cigliano |author4=Holger Braun |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Orthoptera Species File|access-date=2 November 2025}}</ref>
Hooded grasshoppers feed on tree leaves, and they can become serious pests of teak and sandalwood.<ref name="dav">{{cite book|author1=B.V. David |author2=T.N. Ananthakrishnan |name-list-style=amp |title =General and Applied Entomology|publisher =Tata McGraw-Hill Education|year =2004|page=794|isbn =978-0-07-043435-6|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=KHt-daXqZ-sC&dq=Teratodes+monticollis+%28Gray%29&pg=PA794}}</ref> Both the nymphs and adults of the species are dull green in color. The pronotum expands into a large sharp "hood" structure edged with yellow-orange, giving them the general appearance of a leaf.<ref name="anan">{{cite book|author =H.S Anantha Padmanabha|title =Pests and diseases of sandalwood plants in Nurseries and their management|publisher =Siri Agri Group|url =http://www.8am.in/sandalwood/pdf/pdf/sandalwood-sandalwood-diseases-sandalwood-nursery-sandalwood-plantation-hyderabad-andhra-pradesh-india.pdf|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120527061236/http://www.8am.in/sandalwood/pdf/pdf/sandalwood-sandalwood-diseases-sandalwood-nursery-sandalwood-plantation-hyderabad-andhra-pradesh-india.pdf|url-status =dead|archive-date =2012-05-27}}</ref>
==Species== As of 2025, the following are listed in the ''Orthoptera Species File'':<ref name=OSF/> # ''Teratodes brachypterus'' Carl, 1916 - South eastern India # ''Teratodes monticollis'' (Gray, 1832) - '''type species'''
thumb|center|''Teratodes'' sp.
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Category:Acrididae Category:Insects described in 1835 Category:Taxa named by Gaspard Auguste Brullé Category:Orthoptera of Asia