Gryllinae
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Gryllinae, or field crickets, are a subfamily of insects in the order Orthoptera and the family Gryllidae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 63
- With media
- 142
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Collections
- UCSB, ANSP, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States, South Africa, Malaysia, Mali, France, Botswana, Fiji
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Identification
- Behaviour
- Tribes and selected genera
- Cephalogryllini
- Eurygryllodini
- [[Gryllini]]
- [[Modicogryllini]]
- Sciobiini
- [[Sclerogryllini]]
- Turanogryllini
- Genera ''[[incertae sedis]]''
- References
Gryllinae, or field crickets, are a subfamily of insects in the order Orthoptera and the family Gryllidae.
They hatch in spring, and the young crickets (called nymphs) eat and grow rapidly. They shed their skin (molt) eight or more times before they become adults.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gryllinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.