Acheta Explained

Acheta is a genus of crickets. It most notably contains the house cricket (Acheta domesticus). According to Direction 46 issued by the ICZN in 1956, this generic name is masculine in gender.^[1] Apart from the cosmoplitan house cricket, species are recorded from the Palaearctic realm and North America.^[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

• Acheta angustiusculus Gorochov, 1993
• Acheta arabicus Gorochov, 1993
• Acheta brevipennis Chopard, 1963
• Acheta chudeaui (Chopard, 1927)
• Acheta confalonierii (Capra, 1929)
• Acheta domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Gryllus domesticus Linnaeus)
• Acheta gossypii (Costa, 1855)
• Acheta hispanicus Rambur, 1838
• Acheta latiusculus Gorochov, 1993
• Acheta marioni Théobald, 1937
• Acheta meridionalis (Uvarov, 1921)
• Acheta pachycephalus (Karsch, 1893)
• Acheta pantescus Massa, Cusimano, Fontana & Brizio, 2022
• Acheta pulchellus Gorochov, 2017
• Acheta rufopictus Uvarov, 1957
• Acheta svatoshi Gorochov, 1988
• Acheta turcomanoides Gorochov, 1993
• Acheta turcomanus Gorochov, 1978

External links

• Acheta at Encyclopedia of Life

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107764*page/481/mode/1up
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1122533 Genus Acheta at Orthoptera Species File