Gryllidea Explained

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.

Superfamilies and Families

The Orthoptera Species File 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 (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)

Further reading

• Book: Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. 2004. Capinera. J.L. Scott. R.D.. Walker. T.J.. Cornell University Press. 978-0-8014-8948-8. registration.
• Book: Orthoptera. 1997. Otte. Daniel. Poole. Robert W.. Gentili. Patricia. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Entomological Information Services. 4: Non–Holometabolous Orders. 581–634. 1-889002-04-6. 2019-04-16. 2019-11-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20191129051436/http://nearctica.com/nomina/pdfs/volume4/volume4.htm. dead.

Notes and References

1. Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 361.