GryllideaKevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 361. 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.
Superfamilies and families The Orthoptera Species File 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 (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)
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