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Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa, commonly known as the European mole cricket, is widespread in Europe and has been introduced to the eastern United States. Its scientific name is derived from the Latin 'gryllus' ( cricket ); and 'talpa' ( mole ), because of the fine dense fur which covers it and its subterranean habits, [ 2 ] and because of the mole ...
Lifecycle of the [European] mole cricket, from Richard Lydekker's Royal Natural History, 1879. Mole crickets undergo incomplete metamorphosis; when nymphs hatch from eggs, they increasingly resemble the adult form as they grow and pass through a series of up to 10 moults. After mating, a period of 1–2 weeks may occur before the female starts ...
There are ten species of Orthoptera native to Ireland, seven grasshoppers and three bush-crickets. [1] A further species, the mole cricket, is thought to be possibly extirpated, given only one record from 1920. [2]
Gryllotalpa vineae is a species of mole cricket in the family Gryllotalpidae.It is found in southwestern Europe and was first described by the entomologists H. C. Bennet-Clark and Blaine H. Goodposts in 1970 after having realised that it must be a different species from the European mole cricket because of its distinctive song.
Gryllotalpidae – mole crickets; Myrmecophilidae – ant crickets. Strictly, taxa in Infraorder Tettigoniidea and other superfamilies are excluded. Tettigoniidae – the bush crickets or katydids – which are quite distinct and unrelated, with 4-segmented tarsi (at least in the middle and hind legs) [3] and females with flattened ovipositors ...
The mole cricket was well known to Māori, who encountered it when cultivating garden plots and called it honi. [2] Mole crickets collected in New Zealand were assumed to be the European species Gryllotalpa vulgaris (a synonym of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa), which has a wingless nymph that resembles the adult New Zealand species. [3]
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]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 ...
Many groups of burrowing animals (pink fairy armadillos, tuco-tucos, mole rats, mole crickets, pygmy mole crickets, and mole crabs) have independently developed close physical similarities with moles due to convergent evolution; two of these are so similar to true moles, they are commonly called and thought of as "moles" in common English ...