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Gryllidea
Sign in to saveGryllidea 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. thumb|Velarifictorus micado
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Gryllidea 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. thumb|Velarifictorus micado
==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
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