Gryllotalpoidea

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
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Infraorder: Gryllidea
Superfamily: Gryllotalpoidea
Leach, 1815
Type genus
Gryllotalpa
Latreille, 1802

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

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
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References
  1. Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "superfamily Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  2. Leach. 1815. In Brewster [Ed.]. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9: 119.
  3. Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 362.
  4. Orthoptera Species File infraorder Gryllidea (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 22 December 2018)
  5. 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.
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