Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Saussure, H.de (1874) Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. In Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale. Imprimerie Impériale, Paris. Vol. 6, 296–515 pp. Available from http://books.google.com/books?id=PVZSAAAAcAAJ
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Gryllotalpidae
- genus
- Gryllotalpa
- species
- Gryllotalpa major
Name
- Synonyms
- Gryllotalpa ponderosa Bruner, 1886
- Neocurtilla major (Saussure, 1874)
- Neocurtilla ponderosa (Bruner, 1886)
- Homonyms
- Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874
- Common names
- Giant Mole Cricket in English
- Giant Mole Cricket in English
- Giant Mole Cricket in English
- Prairie Mole Cricket in English
- Prairie Mole Cricket in English
- Prairie Mole Cricket in English
- Prairie Mole Cricket in English
- Giant Mole Cricket in English
Bibliographic References
- Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 213
- Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:455
- Hebard. 1934. The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History (Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist.) 20:258
- Hill, P.S.M., Hoffart & Buchheim. 2002. Tracing phylogenetic relationships in the family Gryllotalpidae. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 11(2):171
- Hill, P.S.M., Wells & Shadley. 2006. Singing from a constructed burrow: why vary the shape of the burrow mouth?. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 15(1):23-29
- Hoffart, K. Jones & P.S.M. Hill. 2002. Comparative morphology of the stridulatory apparatus of the Gryllotalpidae (Orthoptera) of the continental United States. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society (J. Kans. Entomol. Soc.) 75:123-131
- Hollier, Bruckner & Heads. 2013. An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 5: Grylloidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie (Revue Suisse de Zool.) 120(3):497
- Howard, D.R. & P.S.M. Hill. 2006. Morphology and calling song characteristics in Gryllotalpa major Saussure (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 15(1):53-57
- Keane, P.S.M. Hill & W. Booth. 2016. The kin selection hypothesis in a lekking mole cricket: assessing nested patterns of relatedness. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (Biol. J. Linn. Soc.) 118(2):382-393
- Keane. 2015. Evaluating call variation and female decisions in a lekking cricket. Metaleptea 35(3):9-11
- Kirby, W.F. 1906. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 2:2
- Otte, Daniel, 1994: Crickets (Grylloidea). Orthoptera Species File 1. 120.
- Saussure. 1874. Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale, Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 6:343
- Walker, T.J. & Figg. 1990. Song acoustic burrow of the prairie mole cricket, Gryllotalpa major (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society (J. Kans. Entomol. Soc.) 63(2):237-242