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The Oecanthidae are a recently (2022 [1]) restored family of crickets based on the type genus Oecanthus Serville, 1831.They include "tree crickets", "anomalous crickets" and "bush crickets" (American usage) and can be found in warmer parts of most of the world (not the northern Palaearctic, Nearctic or Antarctica).
Crickets have a cosmopolitan distribution, being found in all parts of the world with the exception of cold regions at latitudes higher than about 55° North and South. . They have colonised many large and small islands, sometimes flying over the sea to reach these locations, or perhaps conveyed on floating timber or by human acti
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.
Gryllus campestris, the European field cricket or simply the field cricket in the British Isles, [2] is the type species of crickets in its genus and tribe Gryllini. These flightless dark colored insects are comparatively large; the males range from 19 to 23 mm and the females from 17 to 22 mm.
Acanthoplus discoidalis Koringkriek in Fish River Canyon. Acanthoplus discoidalis is a species in the Hetrodinae, a subfamily of the katydid family (Tettigoniidae).Like its closest relatives, Acanthoplus discoidalis variously bears common names such as armoured katydid, armoured ground cricket, armoured bush cricket, corn cricket, setotojane and koringkriek.
Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight' and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.
Gryllus bimaculatus is a species of cricket in the subfamily Gryllinae.Most commonly known as the two-spotted cricket, [2] it has also been called the "African" or "Mediterranean field cricket", although its recorded distribution also includes much of Asia, including China and Indochina through to Borneo. [2]
Gryllus integer, commonly known as the western trilling cricket, is one of many species of field cricket (subfamily Gryllinae) in the genus Gryllus. It is called the "triller" field cricket because its song is nearly continuous rather than broken into discrete chirps. [ 1 ]