Gryllidea

Infraorder of cricket-like animals

Gryllidea
Acheta hispanicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Infraorder: Gryllidea
Superfamilies
  • Grylloidea Laicharting, 1781
  • Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815

Gryllidea[1] is an infraorder that includes crickets and similar insects in the order Orthoptera. There are two superfamilies, and more than 6,000 described species in Gryllidea.[2][3][4]

Velarifictorus micado

Superfamilies and Families

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists the following families in the infraorder Gryllidea:

Grylloidea

  • † Baissogryllidae Gorochov, 1985
  • Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781 (sometimes called "true crickets")
  • Mogoplistidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873 (scaly crickets)
  • Phalangopsidae Blanchard, 1845
  • Protogryllidae Zeuner, 1937
  • Trigonidiidae Saussure, 1874
  • Family unplaced
    • Pteroplistinae
    • genus †Bellosichnus Genise & Sánchez, 2017

Gryllotalpoidea

  • Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815 (mole crickets)
  • Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 (ant crickets)

References

  1. ^ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 361.
  2. ^ a b Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2018). "infraorder Gryllidea". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Gryllidea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-04-16.

Further reading

  • Capinera, J.L; Scott, R.D.; Walker, T.J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8.
  • Otte, Daniel (1997). Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia (eds.). Orthoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol. 4: Non–Holometabolous Orders. Entomological Information Services. pp. 581–634. ISBN 1-889002-04-6. Archived from the original on 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
Taxon identifiers
Gryllidea