Tartarogryllus Explained

Tartarogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by S.P. Tarbinsky in 1940.^[1] The known distribution (possibly incomplete) of species includes: N Africa, S Europe (Spain, Turkey) through to western Asia.^[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Tartarogryllus atlantis
2. Tartarogryllus bidentatus
3. Tartarogryllus cyrenaicus
4. Tartarogryllus fadlii
5. Tartarogryllus jakesi
6. Tartarogryllus rungsi
7. Tartarogryllus sandanski
8. Tartarogryllus tartarus - type species (as Gryllus tartarus = T. tartarus tartarus)

Note Other species names, previously placed in this genus, may now be included in Eumodicogryllus.

Notes and References

1. Tarbinsky SP (1940) In The Saltatorian Orthopterous Insects of the Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. [in Russian]. Acad. Sci. Azyerbaidjankoi S.S.R., Moscow-Leningrad. 245 pp.
2. http://orthoptera.archive.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1122657 Orthoptera Species File: genus Tartarogryllus Tarbinsky, 1940