The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the mole crickets and the ant crickets.[1] The type genus is Gryllotalpa.[1][2][3]
| Gryllotalpoidea | |
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| Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Infraorder: | Gryllidea |
| Superfamily: | Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815 |
| Type genus | |
| Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802
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Recent (2015) molecular phylogenetic studies support the monophyly of the cricket clade (Gryllidea in the Orthoptera Species File[4]) and its subdivision into two clades: Gryllotalpidae and Myrmecophilidae on the one hand, and all the other crickets (i.e. crickets sensu stricto: seven monophyletic clades, including the scaly crickets Mogoplistidae and Gryllidae).[5]
Families and subfamilies edit
The Orthoptera Species File lists the following families and subfamilies:[1]
- Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815 - mole crickets
- Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815
- †Marchandiinae Gorochov, 2010
- Scapteriscinae Zeuner, 1939
- Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 - ant crickets
- Bothriophylacinae Miram, 1934
- Myrmecophilinae Saussure, 1874
References edit
- ^ a b c Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "superfamily Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ Leach. 1815. In Brewster [Ed.]. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9: 119.
- ^ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 362.
- ^ Orthoptera Species File infraorder Gryllidea (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 22 December 2018)
- ^ Chintauan‐Marquier IC, Legendre F, Hugel S, Robillard T, Grandcolas P, Nel A, Zuccon D, Desutter‐Grandcolas L (2016) Laying the foundations of evolutionary and systematic studies in crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera): a multilocus phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics 32 (1): 54-81.