Gryllotalpa Explained

Gryllotalpa^[1] is a genus of insects in the mole cricket family Gryllotalpidae.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists a number species, including cryptic species groups (indicated with a * and often distinguished only by song patterns). They include:

• species group* Gryllotalpa africana Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 — Africa
• species group* Gryllotalpa australis Erichson, 1842 includes:
  • Gryllotalpa brachyptera Tindale, 1928 — Australia
• Gryllotalpa breviabdominis Ma & Zhang, 2011
• Gryllotalpa chiliensis Saussure, 1861
• Gryllotalpa chinensis Westwood, 1838
• Gryllotalpa choui Ma & Zhang, 2010
• Gryllotalpa cophta (Haan, 1844)
• Gryllotalpa cultriger Uhler, 1864 — Mexico
• Gryllotalpa cycloptera Ma & Zhang, 2011
• Gryllotalpa dentista Yang, 1995
• Gryllotalpa formosana Shiraki, 1930 — Taiwan
• Gryllotalpa fraser Tan & Kamaruddin, 2013
• Gryllotalpa fulvipes Saussure, 1877
• Gryllotalpa fusca Chopard, 1930
• Gryllotalpa gorkhana Ingrisch, 2006
• Gryllotalpa gracilis Chopard, 1930
• species group* Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linnaeus, 1758) includes:
  • Gryllotalpa septemdecimchromosomica Ortiz, 1958
  • Gryllotalpa unispina Saussure, 1874
  • Gryllotalpa vineae Bennet-Clark, 1970
• Gryllotalpa henana Cai & Niu, 1998
• Gryllotalpa hirsuta Burmeister, 1838
• Gryllotalpa howensis Tindale, 1928
• Gryllotalpa insulana Chopard, 1954
• Gryllotalpa jinxiuensis You & Li, 1990
• Gryllotalpa krishnani Arun Prasanna, Anbalagan, Pandiarajan, Dinakaran & Krishnan, 2012
• Gryllotalpa mabiana Ma, Xu & Takeda, 2008
• Gryllotalpa madecassa (Chopard, 1920)
• Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874 — USA
• species group* Gryllotalpa monanka Otte & Alexander, 1983 — USA, Australia
• Gryllotalpa maroccana Baccetti, 1987
• Gryllotalpa minuta Burmeister, 1838
• †Gryllotalpa miocaenica Zeuner, 1931
• Gryllotalpa nitens Ingrisch, 2006
• Gryllotalpa nymphicus Tan, 2012
• Gryllotalpa obscura Chopard, 1966
• Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister, 1838 — Asia and Australia
• Gryllotalpa ornata Walker, 1869
• species group* Gryllotalpa oya Tindale, 1928 — Australia
• species group* Gryllotalpa parva Townsend, 1983 — Africa
• species group* Gryllotalpa pilosipes Tindale, 1928 — Australia
• species group* Gryllotalpa pluvialis (Mjöberg, 1913) — Australia
• Gryllotalpa permai Tan & Kamaruddin, 2016
• Gryllotalpa pygmaea Ingrisch, 1990
• Gryllotalpa wallace Tan, 2012
• Gryllotalpa wudangensis Li, Ma & Xu, 2007

External links

• • Mole Cricket Knowledge Base at UF IFAS

Notes and References

1. Latreille (1802) Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. 3: 275.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1128788 Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 3 October 2018)