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Orthoptera Species File
Subfamily

Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815

mole crickets

Type

type genus of Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815

Nomenclature (39)

  • Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815: 119.

    type genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

  • Gryllotalpiens Leach, 1815 (not Latin)

    type genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

  • Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815 in Chintauan-Marquier, Legendre, Hugel, Robillard, Grandcolas, Nel, Zuccon & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016: 73.
  • Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815 in Rentz & Su, 2019: 353.

References (30)

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  • Blanchard, C.É. (1845) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Colèoptères, Orthoptères, Thysanoptères, Névroptères, Lépidoptères, Hémiptères, Aphaniptères, Strepsiptères, Diptères, Anoplures et Thysanures. In Histoire des insectes : traitant de leurs moeurs et de leurs métamorphoses en général et comprenant une nouvelle classification fondée sur leurs rapports naturels. Librairie de F. Didot Frères, Paris. Vol. 2, 1–524, pl. 11–20. Available at http://archive.org/stream/CUbiodiversity1121365-9737#page/244/mode/2up/search/oecanth
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  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1877) Mélanges orthoptérologiques V. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(1), 169–504 [1–352]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35307
  • Krauss, H.A. (1890) Erklärung der Orthopteren-Tafeln J. C. Savigny's in der "Description de l'Égypte". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 40, 227–272. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47786#page/353/mode/1up
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1893) Orthoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de & Zehntner, L. (1894) Notice morphologique sur les gryllotalpiens. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 2, 403–437. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38139#page/417/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico. Cambridge, Mass., 87 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogeneracla00scudrich
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  • Chopard, L. (1915) Gryllidae de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Iles Loyalty. In Nova Caledonia A. Zoologie. C. W. Kreidels Verlag, Wiesbaden. Vol. 2, Issue 8, 131–167 pp.
  • 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
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et dermaptères. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 3, 212 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1093568
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  • Bennet-Clark, H.C. (1970) The mechanism and efficiency of sound production in mole crickets. Journal of Experimental Biology, 52, 619–652.
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  • Bennet-Clark, H.C. (1987) The tuned singing burrow of mole crickets. Journal of Experimental Biology, 128, 383–409.
  • 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
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  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2015) The phallic structures in Gryllotalpidae (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea), and its generic implications. Zootaxa, 3981(2), 264–274.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2015) The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae). Zootaxa, 3985(4), 451–490.
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  • 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
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Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subfamily1034
Tribe4004
Genus5139
Superspecies8008
Species95779181
Subspecies20810