Arachnocephalus Angustifrons
''Arachnocephalus'' is a genus of Grylloidea, crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and typical of the tribe Arachnocephalini, erected by Oronzio Gabriele Costa, O.G. Costa in 1855.Costa OG (1855) ''Fauna del regno di Napoli. Ortotteri'' 41. Widespread records of distribution are discontinuous (and probably incomplete), they include: Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.Orthoptera Species File
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Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists: # ''Arachnocephalus angustifrons'' Chopard, 1955 # ''Arachnocephalus australicus'' Chopard, 1925 # ''Arachnocephalus bidentatus'' Chopard, 1951 # ''Arachnocephalus breviceps'' Chopard, 1929 # ''Arachnocephalus b ...
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Grylloidea
Grylloidea is the Taxonomic rank#Ranks in zoology, superfamily of insects, in the order (biology), order Orthoptera, known as Cricket (insect), crickets. It includes the "Gryllidae, true crickets", Mogoplistinae, scaly crickets, Nemobiinae, wood crickets and many other subfamilies, now placed in six Extant taxon, extant families; some genera are only known from fossils. Grylloidea dates from the Triassic period and contains about 3,700 known living species in some 528 genera, as well as at least 27 extinct genera. Characteristics The features which distinguish crickets in the superfamily Grylloidea from other Ensiferans are long, thread-like antennae, three tarsal segments, slender tactile Cercus, cerci at the tip of the abdomen and bulbous sensory bristles on the cerci. They are the only insects to share this combination of characteristics. The term cricket is popularly used for any cricket-like insect in the order Ensifera, being applied to the ant crickets, bush crickets (Tet ...
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