Gryllidea

Gryllidea^[1] is an infraorder that includes crickets and similar insects in the order Orthoptera. There are two superfamilies, and more than 6,000 described species in Gryllidea.^[2][3][4]

Velarifictorus micado

Gryllidea
Acheta hispanicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Infraorder:	Gryllidea
Superfamilies
Grylloidea Laicharting, 1781 Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815

Superfamilies and Families

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists the following families in the infraorder Gryllidea:

Grylloidea

• † Baissogryllidae Gorochov, 1985
• Gryllidae Laicharting, 1781 (sometimes called "true crickets")
• Mogoplistidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873 (scaly crickets)
• Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845 (tree crickets, anomalous crickets)
• Phalangopsidae Blanchard, 1845
• †Protogryllidae Zeuner, 1937
• Trigonidiidae Saussure, 1874 (wood crickets, trigs or sword-tail crickets)
• Family unplaced
  • Pteroplistinae
  • genus †Bellosichnus Genise & Sánchez, 2017

Gryllotalpoidea

• Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815 (mole crickets)
• Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 (ant crickets)