''Pseudomogoplistes squamiger'', the scaly cricket, is a species of

apterous Aptery is the anatomical condition of an animal completely lacking any kind of wings. An animal with this condition is said to be apterous. Most animal species belong to and are phylogenetic descendants of apterous taxa. These groups are said to ...

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

in the family

Mogoplistidae Mogoplistidae is a family of scaly crickets within the superfamily Grylloidea. Considered to be monophyletic, a sister taxon to the Gryllidae crickets. This family consists of more than 370 species worldwide; 20 species in 4 genera occur in North ...

. Long known in the genus '' Mogoplistes'' it was placed this genus, for which it became the

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 specime ...

, by AV Gorochov in 1984.

Habitat and Distribution

Usually found near the sea on pebble beaches, its native range is especially in southern Europe and northern Africa, but since the 1960s it has been recorded from

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , ...

, later found in

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

Sutton PG, Cooper PD (1999) The scaly cricket Pseudomogoplistes squamiger Fischer (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) in Devonshire: discovery of a second British colony, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London (Ent. Monthly Mag.) 135(1624-7):241-242 in the British Isles

Habitat and Distribution

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