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  order Orthoptera
suborder Ensifera
superfamily Grylloidea Laicharting, 1781

family Gryllotalpidae Leach 1815

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is Gryllotalpida)
• Common name(s):  mole crickets; Maulwurfsgrillen
• Distribution:
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• Citations (23):
  • Leach. 1815. In Brewster [Ed.]. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:119 >> Note: Gryllotalpida
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1873. Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellsch. 4(4):166 >> Note: Gryllotalpidae
  • Seoane. 1878. Stett. Entomol. Z. 39(1-6):375
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1882. Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren 450 >> Note: Gryllotalpidae  
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova Ser. 2 (13)33:194  
  • Desutter-Grandcolas. 1987. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. Nouvelle série 23(3):222 >> Note: Gryllidea  
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 1:i-iv, 1-120 >> Note: Grylloidea: Gryllotalpidae
  • Gwynne. 1995. Jour. Orth. Res. 4:203-218
  • Gorochov. 1995. Trudy Zool. Inst., Ross. Akad. Nauk, Sankt Peterburg 260:1-213 >> Note: Grylloidea: Gryllotalpidae
  • Merritt, R.W. & Cummins [Ed.]. 1996. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, 3rd edition 214 >> Note: Key to genera, North America, containing semiaquatic species
  • Nickle & Naskrecki. 1997. In Gangwere, M.C. Muralirangan & M. Muralirangan [Ed.]. The Bionomics of Grasshoppers, Katydids and Their Kin 44 >> Note: Grylloidea: Gryllotalpidae
  • Defaut [Ed.]. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France 6 >> Note: Key to families
  • Gorochov & Llorente del Moral. 2001. Graellsia 57(2):132 >> Note: Grylloidea: Gryllotalpidae
  • Hill, P.S.M., Hoffart & Buchheim. 2002. Jour. Orth. Res. 11(2):169-174 >> Note: Tracing phylogenetic relationships in the family Gryllotalpidae
  • Fontana, Buzzetti, Cogo & Odé. 2002. Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina 170 [Eng. 221] >> Note: Key to species; Italy, Veneto
  • Bardet. 2002. Bull. Trimestriel de la Soc. d'Hist. Nat. et des Amis du Museum d'Autun 182:36 >> Note: Key to species, Bourgogne-Morvan
  • Desutter-Grandcolas. 2003. Zool Scripta 32(6):538 >> Note: Gryllotapoidea: Gryllotalpidae
  • Bland. 2003. The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets 50 >> Note: Gryllotalpidae; Key to species, Michigan
  • Storozhenko. 2004. Dlinousye pryamokrylye nasekomye (Orthoptera: Ensifera) asiatskoi chasti Rossii [Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia] 34, 232 >> Note: Grylloidea: Gryllotalpidae
  • Szijj. 2004. Die Springschrecken Europas 22, 61 >> Note: European genera
  • Jost & K.L. Shaw. 2006. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 38:510-530 >> Note: Grylloidea: Gryllotalpidae
  • Hill, P.S.M., Wells & Shadley. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(1):23, 28
  • Frank, Vicente & Leppla. 2007. Insecta Mundi 0004:1-10 >> Note: Gryllotalpidae. Puerto Rico
• Type genus:  Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802; priority for family-group names based on Gryllotalpa dates from Gryllotalpida Leach.  First use as Gryllotalpidae by Leach, 1815.

• synonym Curtillidae
• synonym Gryllotalpida Leach 1815
• synonym Gryllotalpides Leach 1815
• synonym Gryllotalpina Leach 1815
• subfamily Gryllotalpinae Leach 1815
• synonym Curtillinae
• synonym Gryllotalpiens Leach 1815
• synonym Gryllotalpini Leach 1815
• synonym Gryllotalpites Leach 1815
• genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802
• genus Gryllotalpella Rehn, 1917
• genus Neocurtilla Kirby, 1906
• genus Pterotriamescaptor† Gorochov, 1992
• genus Triamescaptor Tindale, 1928
• subfamily Scapteriscinae Zeuner 1939
• synonym Scapteriscini Zeuner 1939
• genus Indioscaptor Nickle, 2003
• genus Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868
• genus Archaeogryllotalpoides† Martins-Neto, 1991
• species ornatus† Martins-Neto, 1991
• genus Cratotetraspinus† Martins-Neto, 1997
• synonym Tetraspinus Martins-Neto, 1995
• species fossorius† (Martins-Neto, 1995)
• genus Marchandia† Perrichot, Neraudeau, Azar, Menier & Nel, 2002
• species magnifica† Perrichot, Neraudeau, Azar, Menier & Nel, 2002
• genus Palaeoscapteriscops† Martins-Neto, 1991
• species cretacea† Martins-Neto, 1991