Gryllidea

Gryllidea
Acheta hispanicus
Scientific 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)
• Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845 (tree crickets, anomalous crickets)
• Phalangopsidae Blanchard, 1845
• †Protogryllidae Zeuner, 1937
• Trigonidiidae Saussure, 1874 (wood crickets, trigs or sword-tail crickets)
• 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. 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.
4. "Gryllidea Infraorder Information". BugGuide.net. 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.