''Gryllodes''Saussure (1874) ''Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale'' 6: 409. is a genus of

crickets Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms,Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) ''A General Textbook of Entomology'' 9th Ed. Methuen 8 ...

in the family

Gryllidae The family ''Gryllidae'' contains the subfamilies and genera which entomologists now term true crickets. Having long, whip-like antennae, they belong to the Orthopteran suborder Ensifera, which has been greatly reduced in the last 100 years (''e ...

and

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Gryllini GrylliniLaicharting (1781) ''Verzeichnis und Beschreibung der Tyroler Insecten'' 1. is a tribe of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera) and typical of the family Gryllidae. Species are terrestrial, carnivorous or omnivorous and can be found in all con ...

. Species have been recorded in Australia, Asia, Africa (Ethiopia), central Europe, subtropical and tropical

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type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

, ''

Gryllodes sigillatus ''Gryllodes sigillatus'', the tropical house cricket, Indian house cricket or banded cricket, is a small cricket probably native to southwestern Asia, but has spread throughout tropical regions worldwide. Like its relative the house cricket, the ...

'', may be called the tropical or Indian house cricket: a

cosmopolitan species In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The extre ...

that is cultured for pet-food.

Species

''Gryllodes'' includes the following species: *'' Gryllodes flavispina'' Saussure, 1877 *''

'' (Walker, 1869) - type species (as ''Gryllus sigillatus'' Walker F) *'' Gryllodes supplicans'' (Walker, 1859)

References

External links

* * {{taxonbar, from=Q10509345 Ensifera genera Gryllinae Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Asia