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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 ...
Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets). Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied, fossorial insects about 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) long as adults, with small eyes and shovel-like fore limbs highly developed for burrowing.
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.
Gryllotalpa; Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa: Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: Kingdom: Animalia: Phylum: Arthropoda: Class: Insecta: Order: Orthoptera
The body length is about 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in males and 70 millimetres (2.8 in) in females. The cricket is dark brown with a silky shimmer and yellowish underside and is covered with fine velvety hairs.
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Grylloidea is the superfamily of insects, in the order Orthoptera, known as crickets.It includes the "true crickets", scaly crickets, wood crickets and many other subfamilies, now placed in six extant families; some genera are only known from fossils.
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]