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infraorder
Gryllidea
superfamily
Gryllotalpoidea
Leach, 1815
family
Gryllotalpidae
Leach, 1815
subfamily Scapteriscinae Zeuner, 1939
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Distribution:
Ecology:
Terrestrial. Carnivorous and omnivorous species, entirely subterranean.
Citations (7):
Zeuner. 1939. Fossil Orthoptera, Ensifera, British Museum (Natural History), London 33 >> Note: Scapteriscinae
Vickery. 1977[1976]. Taxon ranking in Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea. Notes of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory (Notes Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab.) 3:9
Rodríguez, F. & Heads. 2012. New mole crickets of the genus Scapteriscus Scudder from Colombia (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae; Scapteriscinae). Zootaxa 3282:62
Cadena-Castañeda. 2015. The phallic structures in Gryllotalpidae (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea), and its generic implications. Zootaxa 3981(2):269
Cadena-Castañeda. 2015. The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae). Zootaxa 3985(4):464, 468
Gorochov. 2015. Evolution and taxonomic significance of the copulatory apparatus in Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part 2: Male genitalia in Grylloidea. Zoosystematica Rossica 24(1):31-41
>> Note: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscinae
Rentz, D.C.F. & Y. Su. 2019. A Guide to Crickets of Australia, CSIRO Publishing 361
Type genus:
Scapteriscus
Scudder, S.H., 1868; priority for family-group names based on
Scapteriscus
dates from Scapteriscinae Zeuner, 1939. First use as Scapteriscinae by Zeuner, 1939.
tribe
Indioscaptorini
Cadena-Castañeda, 2015
genus
Indioscaptor
Nickle, 2003
tribe
Scapteriscini
Zeuner, 1939
genus
Neoscapteriscus
Cadena-Castañeda, 2015
genus
Scapteriscus
Scudder, 1868
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