Electrical connector with an improved grounding member

An electrical connector comprising:

• a longitudinal housing defining a longitudinal direction;
• a row of first terminals being retained in the housing and comprising plural pairs of signal terminals and plural grounding terminals;
• a row of second terminals retained in the housing opposite to the row of the first terminals;
• and a first grounding member retained in the housing;
• wherein the first grounding member comprises a longitudinal ridge extending in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of shielding portions, and a plurality of grounding tails extending from the longitudinal ridge, the shielding portions face and shield corresponding pairs of signal terminals of the row of first terminals, respectively, spanning from a rear end to a front end of corresponding signal terminals, and the grounding tails contact corresponding grounding terminals of the row of first terminals, respectively;
• a second grounding member and a third grounding member, wherein the second grounding member has two grounding tails which contact two corresponding grounding terminals of the row of second terminals respectively, and the third grounding member has three grounding tails which contact three corresponding grounding terminals of the row of second terminals respectively.