Pseudomogoplistes squamiger

Pseudomogoplistes squamiger
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Mogoplistidae
Subfamily: Mogoplistinae
Tribe: Arachnocephalini
Genus: Pseudomogoplistes
Species:
P. squamiger
Binomial name
Pseudomogoplistes squamiger
(Fischer, 1853)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gryllus squamiger Fischer, 1853
  • Mogoplistus squamiger (Fischer, 1853)
  • Mogoplistes talitrus Costa, 1855

Pseudomogoplistes squamiger, the scaly cricket, is a species of apterous cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. Long known in the genus Mogoplistes it was placed this genus, for which it became the type species, by AV Gorochov in 1984.[2]

Distribution and habitat

Usually found near the sea on pebble beaches,[3] its native range is in southern Europe and northern Africa,[4] but since the 1960s it has been recorded from Dorset, and later Devon[5] in the British Isles.[3]

References

  1. ^ Fischer. 1853. Orthoptera Europaea 173
  2. ^ Gorochov AV (1984) Zool. Zhur. 63(11): 1650.
  3. ^ a b Ragge DR (1965). Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles. London: F Warne & Co. p. 299.
  4. ^ Cigliano MM, Braun H, Eades DC, Otte D. "species Pseudomogoplistes squamiger (Fischer, 1853)". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  5. ^ Sutton PG, Cooper PD (1999) The scaly cricket Pseudomogoplistes squamiger Fischer (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) in Devonshire: discovery of a second British colony, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London (Ent. Monthly Mag.) 135(1624-7):241-242

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