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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Grylloderes

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Ecdysozoa > Panarthropoda > Tritocerebra > Phylum: Arthopoda > Mandibulata > Atelocerata > Panhexapoda > Hexapoda > Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Polyneoptera > Anartioptera > Orthopterida > Orthoptera > Ensifera > Grylloidea > Family: Gryllidae > Gryllinae Group > Subfamily: Gryllinae

Twenty-one species, with a distribution that includes Africa, southern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. Four species are native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Orthoptera Species File.

Grylloderes capensis

 

 

Grylloderes cockbilli

 

 

Grylloderes ignobilis

 

 

Grylloderes primiformis

[= Platygryllus primiformis]

 

 

References

Text and photos by Hamish Robertson ©