Grylloidea

Grylloidea
Temporal range: Triassic - Recent 230–0 Ma
Arachnocephalus vestitus (Mogoplistidae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Infraorder: Gryllidea
Superfamily: Grylloidea
Laicharting, 1781
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Grylloidea is the superfamily of insects, in the order Orthoptera, known as crickets. It includes the "true crickets", scaly crickets, wood crickets and many other subfamilies, now placed in five extant families; some genera are only known from fossils.[1]

Grylloidea dates from the Triassic period and contains about 3,700 known living species in some 528 genera, as well as 43 extinct species and 27 extinct genera.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference OSF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Vincent H. Resh; Ring T. Cardé (2009). Encyclopedia of Insects. Academic Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-08-092090-0.