The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the mole crickets and the ant crickets. The type genus is Gryllotalpa.Leach. 1815. In Brewster [Ed.]. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9: 119.Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 362.
Recent (2015) molecular phylogenetic studies support the monophyly of the cricket clade (Gryllidea in the Orthoptera Species FileOrthoptera Species File infraorder Gryllidea (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 22 December 2018)) 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).
Families and subfamilies The Orthoptera Species File lists the following families and subfamilies: 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
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