Gryllidea
[Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker d. ''Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms'' 2: 361.] is an infraorder that includes
crickets and similar insects in the order
Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...
. There are two superfamilies, and more than 6,000 described species in Gryllidea.
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Superfamilies and Families
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ lists the following families in the infraorder Gryllidea:]
Grylloidea
* † Baissogryllidae
Baissogryllidae is an extinct family of crickets in the order Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids a ...
Gorochov, 1985
* Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781 (sometimes called "true crickets")
* Mogoplistidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873 (scaly crickets)
* Phalangopsidae Blanchard, 1845
* Protogryllidae
Protogryllidae is an extinct family of crickets in the order Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids an ...
Zeuner, 1937
* Trigonidiidae
The Trigonidiidae are a family of crickets: Grylloidea consisting of two subfamilies:
* Subfamily Nemobiinae Saussure, 1877 – wood crickets or ground crickets
* Subfamily Trigonidiinae
Trigonidiinae is a subfamily of insects in the order ...
Saussure, 1874
* Family unplaced
** Pteroplistinae
** genus †'' Bellosichnus'' Genise & Sánchez, 2017
Gryllotalpoidea
The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the mole crickets and the ant crickets. The type genus is ''Gryllotalpa''.
Recent (2015) molecular phylogenetic studies support the monophyly of the cricket clade (Gryllidea in the ' ...
* Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815 (mole crickets)
* Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 (ant crickets)
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