Melanogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1961.Chopard LM (1961) Les divisions du genre Gryllus basées sur l'étude de l'appareil copulateur (Orth. Gryllidae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología 37(3), 267–287. Species appear to be widely distributed (but records are probably incomplete) including: North Africa, mainland Europe (not Scandinavia or the British Isles) and Asia (India, Mongolia and Taiwan).Orthoptera Species File: Genus Melanogryllus Chopard, 1961 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 22 April 2023)
Species The Orthoptera Species File lists: Melanogryllus afghan Chopard, 1968 Melanogryllus bilineatus Yang & Yang, 1994 Melanogryllus carmichaeli (Chopard, 1928) Melanogryllus chopardi Bey-Bienko, 1968 Melanogryllus conscitus (Walker, 1869) Melanogryllus desertus (Pallas, 1771) - type species (as Gryllus desertus Pallas)
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