Gryllotalpoidea

The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the mole crickets and the ant crickets.^[1] The type genus is Gryllotalpa.^[1][2][3]

Gryllotalpoidea
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Infraorder:	Gryllidea
Superfamily:	Gryllotalpoidea Leach, 1815
Type genus
Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

Recent (2015) molecular phylogenetic studies support the monophyly of the cricket clade (Gryllidea in the Orthoptera Species File^[4]) and its subdivision into two clades: Gryllotalpidae and Myrmecophilidae on the one hand, and all the other crickets (i.e. crickets sensu stricto: seven monophyletic clades, including the scaly crickets Mogoplistidae and Gryllidae).^[5]

Families and subfamilies

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following families and subfamilies:^[1]

• Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815 - mole crickets
  • Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815
  • †Marchandiinae Gorochov, 2010
  • Scapteriscinae Zeuner, 1939
• Myrmecophilidae Saussure, 1874 - ant crickets
  • Bothriophylacinae Miram, 1934
  • Myrmecophilinae Saussure, 1874