Gryllotalpoidea
Superfamily of cricket-like animals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the mole crickets and the ant crickets.[1] The type genus is Gryllotalpa.[1][2][3]
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Gryllotalpoidea | |
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Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Infraorder: | Gryllidea |
Superfamily: | Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815 |
Type genus | |
Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802 |
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Recent (2015) molecular phylogenetic studies support the monophyly of the cricket clade (Gryllidea in the Orthoptera Species File[4]) and its subdivision into two clades: Gryllotalpidae and Myrmecophilidae on the one hand, and all the other crickets (i.e. crickets sensu stricto: seven monophyletic clades, including the scaly crickets Mogoplistidae and Gryllidae).[5]