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family

Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781

true crickets; Grillen; grillons

Type

Gryllus Linnaeus, 1758 type genus of Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781

Nomenclature (65)

  • Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781: Vorrede.

    type genus Gryllus Linnaeus, 1758

  • Gryllides [sic] Laicharting, 1781 (not Latin)

    type genus Gryllus Linnaeus, 1758

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  • Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781 in Campos, Souza-Dias, Audino, Desutter-Grandcolas & Nihei, 2022: 15.
  • Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781 in Cadena-Castañeda, 2025: 153.

Nomenclature references (62)

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  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2025) Studies on Neotropical crickets: On the Hemigryllus Saussure, 1877 taxonomic placement (Orthoptera: Grylloidea), with comments on Gryllidae classification, including new species and records. Zootaxa, 5661(2), 151–177. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5661.2.1
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Descendants and synonyms

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
family1012
supersubfamily1001
subfamily811322
tribe1901635
subtribe81918
infratribe3003
supergenus1001
genus2302664320
subgenus64065129
superspecies330841
species19965216193667
subspecies1060245351