Melanogryllus Explained

Melanogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1961.^[1] Species appear to be widely distributed (but records are probably incomplete) including: North Africa, mainland Europe (not Scandinavia or the British Isles) and Asia (India, Mongolia and Taiwan).^[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Melanogryllus afghan Chopard, 1968
2. Melanogryllus bilineatus Yang & Yang, 1994
3. Melanogryllus carmichaeli (Chopard, 1928)
4. Melanogryllus chopardi Bey-Bienko, 1968
5. Melanogryllus conscitus (Walker, 1869)
6. Melanogryllus desertus (Pallas, 1771) - type species (as Gryllus desertus Pallas)

Notes and References

1. Chopard LM (1961) Les divisions du genre Gryllus basées sur l'étude de l'appareil copulateur (Orth. Gryllidae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología 37(3), 267–287. [1960]
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1122593 Orthoptera Species File