Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Saussure, H.de (1874) 6 Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centraleEtudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. Imprimerie Impériale, Paris. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?id=PVZSAAAAcAAJ 296-515

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

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2. Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:455
3. 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
4. Hill, P.S.M., Hoffart & Buchheim. 2002. Tracing phylogenetic relationships in the family Gryllotalpidae. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 11(2):171
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Keane. 2015. Evaluating call variation and female decisions in a lekking cricket. Metaleptea 35(3):9-11
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
12. Otte, Daniel, 1994: Crickets (Grylloidea). Orthoptera Species File 1. 120.
13. Saussure. 1874. Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères, famille des gryllides. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale, Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 6:343
14. 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