- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids
- ›Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Allies
- ›Pygmy Mole Crickets, Mud Crickets, and Sandgropers
- ›Pygmy Mole Crickets, Mud Crickets, and Sandgropers
- ›Pygmy Mole Crickets
- ›Tridactylinae
Molehoppers
Xya
The Tridactylidae are a family in the order Orthoptera. They are small, mole-cricket-like insects, almost always less than 20 mm long when mature. Generally they are shiny, dark or black, sometimes variegated or sandy-coloured. They commonly live in short tunnels and accordingly are known by common names such as pygmy mole crickets, though they are not particularly closely related to the true "mole crickets", the (Gryllotalpidae), but are instead basal grasshoppers.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Colourful Molehopper
speciesXya variegata
Pfaendler's Molehopper
speciesXya pfaendleri
Xya japonica
speciesXya japonica
Xya muta
speciesXya muta
Xya iberica
speciesXya iberica
Xya opaca
speciesXya opaca
Xya riparia
speciesXya riparia
Xya capensis
speciesXya capensis
Xya leucophrys
speciesXya leucophrys
Xya pulex
speciesXya pulex
Xya nigraenea
speciesXya nigraenea
Xya apicicornis
speciesXya apicicornis
Xya nitobei
speciesXya nitobei
Xya curta
speciesXya curta
Xya nigripennis
speciesXya nigripennis
Xya bortalaensis
speciesXya bortalaensis
Xya nobile
speciesXya nobile
Xya frontomaculata
speciesXya frontomaculata
Xya indica
speciesXya indica
Xya ancarafantsika
speciesXya ancarafantsika
Xya xishangbanna
speciesXya xishangbanna
Xya yunnanensis
speciesXya yunnanensis
Xya vicheti
speciesXya vicheti
Xya marmorata
speciesXya marmorata
Xya hieroglyphica
speciesXya hieroglyphica
Xya shandongensis
speciesXya shandongensis
Xya castetsi
speciesXya castetsi
Xya huxleyi
speciesXya huxleyi
Xya inflata
speciesXya inflata
Xya leshanensis
speciesXya leshanensis
Xya manchurei
speciesXya manchurei
Xya minor
speciesXya minor
Xya nanutarrae
speciesXya nanutarrae
Xya pseudomuta
speciesXya pseudomuta
Xya punctata
speciesXya punctata
Xya quadrimaculata
speciesXya quadrimaculata
Xya royi
speciesXya royi
Xya schoutedeni
speciesXya schoutedeni
Xya sichuanensis
speciesXya sichuanensis
Xya smithersi
speciesXya smithersi
Xya subantarctica
speciesXya subantarctica
Xya tumbaensis
speciesXya tumbaensis
Xya uamensis
speciesXya uamensis
Xya unicolor
speciesXya unicolor
Xya albiantennata
speciesXya albiantennata
Xya albipalpis
speciesXya albipalpis
Xya aurantipes
speciesXya aurantipes
Xya crassicornis
speciesXya crassicornis
Xya descampsi
speciesXya descampsi
Xya donskoffi
speciesXya donskoffi
Xya elytromaculata
speciesXya elytromaculata
Xya festiva
speciesXya festiva
Xya galla
speciesXya galla
Xya hauseri
speciesXya hauseri
Xya albigenata
speciesXya albigenata
Xya atra
speciesXya atra
Xya londti
speciesXya londti
Xya maraisi
speciesXya maraisi
Xya pronotovirgata
speciesXya pronotovirgata
Xya univenata
speciesXya univenata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Xya in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 357978.