Stenopelmatidae

Stenopelmatidae
Stenopelmatus fuscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Superfamily: Stenopelmatoidea
Family: Stenopelmatidae
Genera

Ammopelmatus
Orcytopus
Sia
Stenopelmatopterus
Stenopelmatus
Viscainopelmatus

The family Stenopelmatidae is composed of large, flightless insects resembling crickets (the family Gryllidae). The majority of species are in the New World (esp. the genus Stenopelmatus), but the genera Orcytopus and Sia are Old World groups, each of which is placed in its own subfamily.[1]

References

  1. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, María Marta; Braun, Holger. "family Stenopelmatidae Burmeister, 1838". Orthoptera Species File.
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