Mole Crickets - Family: Gryllotalpidae
Subfamily: Gryllotalpinae
Tribe: Gryllotalpini
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Complex: Gryllotalpa australis
Southern Mole Cricket - Gryllotalpa australis |
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Short-winged Mole Cricket - Gryllotalpa brachyptera (possible occurrence)
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Complex: Gryllotalpa monanka
Confusing Mole Cricket - Gryllotalpa coarctata |
Dark Night Mole Cricket - Gryllotalpa monanka (possible occurrence)
Complex: Gryllotalpa pluvialis
Shiny Mole Cricket - Gryllotalpa nitidula (possible occurrence)
Shiny Mole Cricket - Gryllotalpa nitidula (possible occurrence)
Gryllotalpa pluvialis
Taxonomy:
Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
> Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
> Class: Insecta (Insects)
> Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and Once-winged Insects)
> Order: Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets and Katydids)
> Suborder: Ensifera (Katydids, Crickets and Allies)
> Infraorder: Gryllidea (Crickets)
> Superfamily: Gryllotalpoidea (Mole- and Ant Crickets)
> Family: Gryllotalpidae (Mole Crickets)
> Subfamily: Gryllotalpinae
> Tribe: Gryllotalpini
> Genus: Gryllotalpa
> Complex: Gryllytalpa australis
> Species: G. australis - Southern Mole Cricket
> Species: G. brachyptera - Short-winged Mole Cricket ^
> Complex: Gryllytalpa monanka
> Species: G. coarctata - Confusing Mole Cricket
> Species: G. monanka - Dark Night Mole Cricket ^
> Complex: Gryllotalpa pluvialis
> Species: G. nitidula - Shiny Mole Cricket ^
> Species: G. pluvialis
^ = possibly
* = likely
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