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Gryllotalpa
Gryllotalpa is a genus of insects in the mole cricket family Gryllotalpidae.
Oecanthus
Oecanthus is a genus of cricket in subfamily Oecanthinae, the tree crickets.
Cooloola
genus of insects
Myrmecophilus
Myrmecophilus or ant crickets, is a genus of orthopteran insects in the family Myrmecophilidae. This genus contains the majority of myrmecophilous (ant-loving) species in this small, obscure family.
Barbitistes
Barbitistes is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae.
Stenopelmatus
Stenopelmatus is one of two genera of large, flightless insects referred to commonly as Jerusalem crickets (or "potato bugs"). They are primarily native to Central America, and one species is known from Ecuador.
Caconemobius
Caconemobius is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Nemobiinae. There are about 15 species distributed from the Pacific coasts of Asia to Hawaii, where they occur in marine environments on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, barren lava fields, and lava tube caves.
Gryllomorpha
Gryllomorpha is a genus of cricket belonging to the family Gryllidae subfamily Gryllomorphinae. The species of this genus are present in Europe, in North Africa and in Central Asia.
Sepiana sepium
thumb|Video of Sepiana sepium Sepiana sepium, common name sepia bush-cricket, is a species of bush crickets belonging to the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis. It is the only species within the monotypic genus Sepiana.
Gampsocleis
Gampsocleis is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Tettigoniinae and tribe Gampsocleidini.
Nemobius
Nemobius is the type genus of crickets in the subfamily Nemobiinae: called "wood crickets" (UK) or "ground crickets" (US) and now placed in the family Trigonidiidae.
Dolichopoda
Dolichopoda is a genus of cave crickets in the monotypic tribe Dolichopodaini, subfamily Dolichopodainae. They are distributed in the Mediterranean basin in southern Europe and western Asia.
Anonconotus
Anonconotus is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by L. Camerano in 1878. Species may be called "Alpine bush crickets" and can be found in mainland western Europe, with most records from France through to Austria and Italy.
Hemiandrus
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Itara
Itara is an Asian genus of crickets, and typical of the subfamily Itarinae. Species can be found in India, southern China, Indo-China and West Malesia (including Borneo).
Pristoceuthophilus
Pristoceuthophilus is a genus of North American cave cricket in family Rhaphidophoridae named by James A. G. Rehn in 1903.
Abaxisotima
Abaxisotima is a genus of bush crickets found in China.
Ammopelmatus
Ammopelmatus is a genus of insects in the family Stenopelmatidae, one of two genera of large, flightless insects referred to commonly as Jerusalem crickets (or "potato bugs"). They are native to Western United States and northwestern Mexico.
Patiscus
Patiscus is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Euscyrtinae. Species can be found in Asia, with records from India, China, Indo-China, the Philippines and New Guinea.
Pterolepis
genus of katytid insects (Tettigoniidae)
Diestrammena
Diestrammena is a 'camel' or 'cave-cricket' genus in the family Rhaphidophoridae. Species in the genus are native to Asia, including Japan.
Tessellana
Tessellana is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini and genus group Platycleis, erected by Zeuner in 1941. Species can be found throughout mainland Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Comicus
Comicus is a genus of southern African Orthopteran insects of the family Schizodactylidae, erected by Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1888.
Banza
genus of insects
Glomeremus
Glomeremus is a genus of African Orthopterans in the subfamily Gryllacridinae and tribe Ametroidini.
Cycloptilum
Cycloptilum is a genus of common scaly crickets in the family Mogoplistidae from the Americas. There are at least 50 described species in Cycloptilum.
Aancistroger
Aancistroger is a genus of Orthopterans, sometimes known as 'leaf-folding crickets' in the newly erected subfamily Hyperbaeninae and tribe Phryganogryllacridini. A key to the species is given by Bian, Jing Liu & Zizhong Yang, with a recorded distribution from China and Indochina.
Leptogryllus
Leptogryllus is a genus of Hawaiian crickets. Species include:
Beybienkoana
Beybienkoana is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Euscyrtinae. Species can be found mostly in Africa, Asia and Australia.
Modicogryllus
Modicogryllus is the type genus of crickets in the tribe Modicogryllini. Species have been recorded from: Europe, Africa, the middle East, temperate and tropical Asia through to Australia and western Pacific islands.
Aphonoides
Aphonoides is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Podoscirtinae and tribe Aphonoidini. Most species records are from sub-Saharan Africa, Japan, eastern China, S.E. Asia and Australasia.
Melanogryllus
Melanogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1961. 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).
Tachycines
Tachycines is a genus of camel crickets in the subfamily Aemodogryllinae and tribe Aemodogryllini. Some authorities had placed the type species, T. asynamorus, in the genus Diestrammena, but recent papers returned this to the subgenus Tachycines (Tachycines), with a substantial number of new species recently described.
Vescelia
Vescelia is a genus of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera) in the family Phalangopsidae, subfamily Phaloriinae, tribe Phaloriini. Species have been found in: Japan, China, Vietnam, Borneo and the Philippines.
Macrobaenetes
Macrobaenetes is a genus of sand-treader crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae, found in California. There are at least four described species in Macrobaenetes.
Ornebius
Ornebius is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and the tribe Arachnocephalini, erected by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844. Species may be called "common scaled crickets" and have widespread records of distribution, which are discontinuous (and probably incomplete); they include: Africa, Asia, Australia, islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and South America.
Velarifictorus
Velarifictorus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini. Species have been recorded in Australia, Asia, and Africa, as well as the eastern United States where one species was introduced by humans..
Euscyrtus
Euscyrtus is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Euscyrtinae. Species can be found mostly (with the exception of E. mexicanus) in Africa, Asia and Australia.
Adiestramima
Adiestramima is a genus of cave or camel crickets in the subfamily Aemodogryllinae and tribe Diestramimini. Originating in Asia, species have been found in the Indo-China region, mostly Vietnam.
Larnaca
genus of insects
Pentacentrus
Pentacentrus is an Asian genus of crickets, typical of the tribe Pentacentrini and subfamily Pentacentrinae; these names are based on "Pentacentrites" coined by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1878. Species in this genus have been recorded from: China, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malesia and northern Australia (distribution is probably incomplete).
Mistshenkoana
Mistshenkoana is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Podoscirtinae and tribe Aphonoidini. Species can be found in tropical southeast Asia through to Australia and western Pacific islands.
Ceuthophilus
Ceuthophilus is a genus of insects in the cave cricket family Rhaphidophoridae. It contains most of the species that are known commonly as camel crickets.
Neanias
Neanias is a genus of Orthopterans, sometimes known as 'leaf-folding crickets' in the subfamily Gryllacridinae and tribe Gryllacridini. The recorded distribution (probably incomplete) is: Indian subcontinent, Japan, Hainan, Indochina, and western Malesia (Sumatra).
Valiatrella
Valiatrella is a genus of crickets in the tribe Podoscirtini. Species have been recorded in: India, southern China and Vietnam.
Parendacustes
Parendacustes is a genus of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera) in the family Phalangopsidae, tribe Phalangopsini, subtribe Parendacustina. Species have been recorded from Indo-China (although no Vietnam records to date), Malesia and New Guinea.
Paraneonetus multispinus
Paraneonetus is a monotypic genus of wētā containing the species Paraneonetus multispinus, commonly known as the Three Kings cave wētā. P. multispinus is a cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to the Three Kings Islands of New Zealand.
Metiochodes
Metiochodes is an Asian genus of "sword-tail crickets", in the subfamily Trigonidiinae and the tribe Trigonidiini.
Phalangopsis
Phalangopsis is a Neotropical genus of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera) in the family Phalangopsidae, subfamily Phalangopsinae, tribe Phalangopsini.
Arachnocephalus
Arachnocephalus is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and typical of the tribe Arachnocephalini, erected by O.G. Costa in 1855. Widespread records of distribution are discontinuous (and probably incomplete), they include: Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.
Svistella
Svistella is an Asian genus of "sword-tail crickets", in the subfamily Trigonidiinae and has now been assigned to the tribe Trigonidiini.
Truljalia
Truljalia is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Podoscirtinae and tribe Truljaliini. Species have been recorded in: India, southern China, Korea, Japan, Indo-China and west Malesia.
Duolandrevus
Duolandrevus is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Landrevinae and tribe Landrevini. Species can be found in Asia.
Gryllacris
Gryllacris is a genus of Orthopterans, sometimes known as 'leaf-folding crickets' in the subfamily Gryllacridinae. It is the type genus for the family, tribe Gryllacridini and its subfamily.
Daihinibaenetes
Daihinibaenetes is a genus of sand-treader crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. There are at least three described species in Daihinibaenetes.
Anaxipha
Anaxipha is a genus of brown sword-tail cricket from tropical areas in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and western Pacific islands.
Sclerogryllus
Sclerogryllus is an Asian genus of crickets, typical of the tribe Sclerogryllini (formerly subfamily Sclerogryllinae).
Zamunda
Zamunda is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Podoscirtinae and tribe Aphonoidini. Species have been found in southern China and peninsular Malaysia (known distribution may be incomplete).
Neonemobius
Neonemobius is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Nemobiinae. All species are recorded from North America.
Pachytrachis
Pachytrachis is a genus of Palaearctic bush crickets in the tribe Platycleidini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1940. Species have been recorded from Italy, through South-eastern Europe to Turkey.