Acheta

Acheta is a genus of crickets. It most notably contains the house cricket (Acheta domesticus). According to Direction 46 issued by the ICZN in 1956, this generic name is masculine in gender.^[3] Apart from the cosmopolitan house cricket, species are recorded from the Palaearctic realm and North America.^[2]

Acheta
Acheta domesticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Gryllidae
Subfamily:	Gryllinae
Tribe:	Gryllini
Genus:	Acheta Fabricius, 1775[1][2]
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Acheta Linnaeus, 1758, 1758 Gryllulus Uvarov, 1935

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

• Acheta angustiusculus Gorochov, 1993
• Acheta arabicus Gorochov, 1993
• Acheta brevipennis Chopard, 1963
• Acheta chudeaui (Chopard, 1927)
• Acheta confalonierii (Capra, 1929)
• Acheta domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Gryllus domesticus Linnaeus)
• Acheta gossypii (Costa, 1855)
• Acheta hispanicus Rambur, 1838
• Acheta latiusculus Gorochov, 1993
• †Acheta marioni Théobald, 1937
• Acheta meridionalis (Uvarov, 1921)
• Acheta pachycephalus (Karsch, 1893)
• Acheta pantescus Massa, Cusimano, Fontana & Brizio, 2022
• Acheta pulchellus Gorochov, 2017
• Acheta rufopictus Uvarov, 1957
• Acheta svatoshi Gorochov, 1988
• Acheta turcomanoides Gorochov, 1993
• Acheta turcomanus Gorochov, 1978