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Melanogryllus
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Melanogryllus

Melanogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1961. 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).

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Desert Cricket

speciesMelanogryllus desertus

Melanogryllus bilineatus

speciesMelanogryllus bilineatus

Sukna Lesser Field-Cricket

speciesMelanogryllus carmichaeli

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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 507378.