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True Crickets and Allies
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True Crickets and Allies

Grylloidea

Grylloidea is a superfamily of insects in the order Orthoptera. It includes the true crickets, the mole crickets, the scaly crickets and the ant crickets, and two families only known from fossils.

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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

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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.