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True Crickets and Allies
Grylloidea
Grylloidea is the superfamily of insects, in the order Orthoptera, known as crickets. It includes the "true crickets", scaly crickets, wood crickets and many other subfamilies, now placed in six extant families; some genera are only known from fossils.
Grylloidea dates from the Triassic period and contains about 3,700 known living species in some 528 genera, as well as at least 27 extinct genera.
7 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
True Crickets
familyGryllidae
Trigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets
familyTrigonidiidae
Tree Crickets and Bush Crickets
familyOecanthidae
Scaly Crickets and Allies
familyMogoplistidae
Spider Crickets and Allies
familyPhalangopsidae
Pteroplistidae
familyPteroplistidae
Protogryllidae
familyProtogryllidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 50158.