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Orthoptera Species File
Superfamily

Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815

mole crickets

Type

type genus of Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815

Nomenclature (18)

  • Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815: 119.

    type genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

  • Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815 in Bruner, 1916: 342.
  • Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815 in Chintauan-Marquier, Legendre, Hugel, Robillard, Grandcolas, Nel, Zuccon & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016: 76, 77.
  • Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815 in Rentz & Su, 2019: 352.

References (18)

  • Leach, W.E. (1815) Entomology. In The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. William Blackwood, Endinburgh. Vol. 9, pp. 57–172. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/58397#page/65/mode/1up
  • Bruner, L. (1916) South American crickets, Gryllotalpoidea and Achetoidea. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 10, 344–428. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38133
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1977) The higher classification of the Orthopteroid insects: A general view. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 4, 1–31.
  • Vickery, V.R. (1977) Taxon ranking in Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea. Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory Memoir, Supplement No. 4, 32–43.
  • Vickery, V.R. (1977) Taxon ranking in Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea. Notes of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 3, 1–20. [1976]
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1987) Structure et évolution du complexe phallique de Gryllidea (Orthoptères) et classification des genres néotropicaux de Grylloidea. Première partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 23(3), 213–239. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6139207n/f3.image
  • Ingrisch, S. (1990) Grylloptera and Orthoptera s.str. from Nepal and Darjeeling in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Spixiana (Munich), 13, 149–182. Available at http://archive.org/details/spixiana1990zool
  • Nickle, D.A. (1992) The crickets and mole crickets of Panama (Orthoptera: Gryllidae and Gryllotalpidae). In Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York & Tokyo. pp. 185–197, 649, 658.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • Yin, H. & Liu, X.-W. (1995) Synopsis on the classification of Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea from China. Shanghai Scientific & Technological Literature Publishing House, Shanghai, 239 pp.
  • Elzinga, R.J. (1996) A comparative-study of microspines in the alimentary canal of 5 familes of Orthoptera (Saltatoria). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology, 25, 249–260.
  • Ragge, D.R. & Reynolds, W.J. (1998) Songs of the Grasshoppers and Crickets of Western Europe. Harley Books, Colchester, Essex, U. K., i-x, 1–591.
  • Wu, H. & Pan, C.-W. (2001) Insects of Tianmushan National Nature Reserve. Science Press, Beijing, 1–764 pp.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2003) Phylogeny and the evolution of acoustic communication in extant Ensifera (Insecta, Orthoptera). Zoologica Scripta, 32(6), 525–561.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2015) The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae). Zootaxa, 3985(4), 451–490.
  • Chintauan-Marquier, I.C., 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. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cla.12114
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Superfamily1001
Family2068
Subfamily4149
Tribe9009
Genus146727
Subgenus3058
Superspecies8008
Species21312228453
Subspecies90817