''Gryllodes''
[Saussure (1874) ''Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale'' 6: 409.] is a genus of
crickets
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms,Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 88 ...
in the family
Gryllidae
The family ''Gryllidae'' contains the subfamilies and genera which entomologists now term true crickets. Having long, whip-like antennae, they belong to the Orthopteran suborder Ensifera, which has been greatly reduced in the last 100 years ( ...
and
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
Gryllini. Species have been recorded in Australia, Asia, Africa (Ethiopia), central Europe, subtropical and tropical
Americas.
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The type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...
, ''Gryllodes sigillatus
''Gryllodes sigillatus'', the tropical house cricket, Indian house cricket or banded cricket, is a small cricket probably native to southwestern Asia, but has spread throughout tropical regions worldwide. Like its relative the house cricket, the ...
'', may be called the tropical or Indian house cricket: a cosmopolitan species
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ex ...
that is cultured for pet-food.
Species
''Gryllodes'' includes the following species:
*'' Gryllodes flavispina'' Saussure, 1877
*''Gryllodes sigillatus
''Gryllodes sigillatus'', the tropical house cricket, Indian house cricket or banded cricket, is a small cricket probably native to southwestern Asia, but has spread throughout tropical regions worldwide. Like its relative the house cricket, the ...
'' (Walker, 1869) - type species (as ''Gryllus sigillatus'' Walker F)
*''Gryllodes supplicans
''Gryllodes''Saussure (1874) ''Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale'' 6: 409. is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini. Species have been recorded in Australia, Asia, Africa (Ethiopia), central Eu ...
'' (Walker, 1859)
References
External links
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Ensifera genera
Gryllinae
Orthoptera of Africa
Orthoptera of Asia