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Gryllini

Gryllini is a tribe of crickets and typical of the family Gryllidae. Species are terrestrial, carnivorous or omnivorous and can be found in all continents except Antarctica.

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Gryllini
Gryllus campestris male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Superfamily: Grylloidea
Family: Gryllidae
Subfamily: Gryllinae
Tribe: Gryllini
Laicharting, 1781
Synonyms
  • Anurogryllina Randell, 1964
  • Gryllina Laicharting, 1781
  • Gymnogryllina Randell, 1964
  • Gymnogryllini Randell, 1964

Gryllini1 is a tribe of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera) and typical of the family Gryllidae. Species are terrestrial, carnivorous or omnivorous and can be found in all continents except Antarctica.2

Genera

The Orthoptera Species File2 lists:

subtribe Anurogryllina Randell, 1964 (Americas)
  • Anurogryllus Saussure, 1877
  • Hispanogryllus Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009
  • Mexigryllus Gorochov, 2019
  • Paranurogryllus Mesa & García-Novo, 1999
  • Zebragryllus Desutter-Grandcolas & Cadena-Castañeda, 2014
subtribe Brachytrupina Saussure, 1877
  • genus group Atsigryllae Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020 (Neotropical)
    • Atsigryllus Cadena-Castañeda & Tíjaro, 2020
  • genus group Gigagryllae Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020 (Neotropical)
    • Gigagryllus Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020
      • monotypic G. omayrae Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020
    • Titanogryllus Jaiswara, Souza-Dias, Desutter-Grandcolas & de Mello, 2018
  • genus group Megalogryllae Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020 (Neotropical)
    • Megalogryllus Chopard, 1930
  • genus group Miogryllae Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020 (Americas)
    • Faguagryllus Cadena-Castañeda, 2011
      • monotypic F. luteolus Cadena-Castañeda, 2011
    • Gryllita Hebard, 1935
    • Kazuemba de Mello, 1990
      • monotypic K. walderi de Mello, 1990
    • Miogryllus Saussure, 1877
  • genus group Perugryllae Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020 (Neotropical)
    • Laureopsis Jaiswara, 2017
      • monotypic G. nauta Jaiswara, 2017
    • Perugryllus Jaiswara, 2017
  • genus group not determined:
subtribe Cophogryllina Ichikawa, Murai & Honda, 2000 (Africa, Asia)
  • Cophogryllus Saussure, 1877
  • Goniogryllus Chopard, 1936
  • Parasongella Otte, 1987
    • Parasongella ornaticeps (Chopard, 1969)
  • Qingryllus Chen & Zheng, 1995
subtribe Gryllina Laicharting, 1781
subtribe not determined
References

References

  1. Laicharting (1781) Verzeichnis und Beschreibung der Tyroler Insecten 1.
  2. Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 25 August 2019)
External links
  • Data related to Gryllini at Wikispecies
  • Media related to Gryllini at Wikimedia Commons