Orthoptera Species File
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Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874

Prairie Mole Cricket; Giant Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874: (Otu).
Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874: (Otu).

Nomenclature (19)

  • Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874: 343.

    Holotype; male; e79d3ba2-d289-49d4-8ea9-2f9b87e38913; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); United States: Illinois

  • Gryllotalpa ponderosa Bruner, 1886: 126.

    Holotype; female; f1828b8f-23a8-4b57-a3e2-3c990cbedd96; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Kansas

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  • Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874 in Keane, Hill & Booth, 2016
  • Gryllotalpa ponderosa Bruner, 1886 (subjective synonym of Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874) in Silva, Pereira & Sperber, 2017: 500.

Nomenclature references (18)

  • Bruner, L. (1886) First contribution to a knowledge of the Orthoptera of Kansas. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History, 1, 125–139. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015076006678
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) In Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 249 pp.
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  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • de Saussure, H. (1874) Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. In Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale. Imprimerie Impériale, Paris. Vol. 6, 296–515 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=PVZSAAAAcAAJ
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • Hill, P.S.M., Hoffart, C. & Buchheim, M. (2002) Tracing phylogenetic relationships in the family Gryllotalpidae. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 11(2), 169–174. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282002%29011%5B0169%3ATPRITF%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Hill, P.S.M., Wells, H. & Shadley, J.R. (2006) Singing from a constructed burrow: why vary the shape of the burrow mouth? Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(1), 23–29. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282006%2915%5B23%3ASFACBW%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Hoffart, C., Jones, K. & Hill, P.S.M. (2002) Comparative morphology of the stridulatory apparatus of the Gryllotalpidae (Orthoptera) of the continental United States. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 75, 123–131.
  • Hollier, J.A., Bruckner, H. & Heads, S.W. (2013) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(3), 445–535. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/202907#page/103/mode/1up
  • Howard, D.R. & Hill, P.S.M. (2006) Morphology and calling song characteristics in Gryllotalpa major Saussure (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(1), 53–57. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282006%2915%5B53%3AMACSCI%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Hubbell, T.H. & Ortenburger, A.I. (1926) Notes on Oklahoma Orthoptera with a list of species from the state. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science, 6, 149–183. Available at http://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/OAS/article/download/2438/2135
  • Keane, K. (2015) Evaluating call variation and female decisions in a lekking cricket. Metaleptea, 35(3), 9–11. Available at http://140.247.96.247/orthsoc/pdf/met_35_3.pdf
  • Keane, K., Hill, P.S.M. & Booth, W. (2016) The kin selection hypothesis in a lekking mole cricket: assessing nested patterns of relatedness. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118(2), 382–393.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(1), 60–128. Available at http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca64acad/page/60/mode/2up
  • Silva, D.S.M., Pereira, M.R. & Sperber, C.F. (2017) The type material of Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815 (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera) deposited in the Orthoptera collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia (ANSP): an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 4318(3), 499–519.
  • Walker, T.J. & Figg, D.E. (1990) Song acoustic burrow of the prairie mole cricket, Gryllotalpa major (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 63(2), 237–242. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s341lw90.pdf

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