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Jerusalem Crickets
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Jerusalem Crickets

Stenopelmatidae

The family Stenopelmatidae is composed of large, flightless insects resembling crickets (the family Gryllidae). The majority of species are in the New World (esp. the genus Stenopelmatus), but the genera Oryctopus and Sia are Old World groups, each of which is placed in its own subfamily.

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Jerusalem Crickets

subfamilyStenopelmatinae

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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 53897.