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Gryllidea

Gryllidea is an infraorder that includes crickets and similar insects in the order Orthoptera. There are two superfamilies, and more than 6,000 described species in Gryllidea.

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Gryllidea
Acheta hispanicus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Infraorder: Gryllidea
Vickery, 1977
Superfamilies

Gryllidea1 is an infraorder that includes crickets and similar insects in the order Orthoptera. There are two superfamilies, and more than 6,000 described species in Gryllidea.234

Velarifictorus micado

Superfamilies and families

The Orthoptera Species File2 lists the following families in the infraorder Gryllidea:

References

References

  1. Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 361.
  2. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2018). "infraorder Gryllidea". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. "Gryllidea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
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