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Gryllopsis

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Gryllopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Gryllidae
Subfamily: Gryllinae
Tribe: Modicogryllini
Genus: Gryllopsis
Chopard, 1928
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Gryllopsis is a genus of crickets in the tribe Modicogryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1928.[1] Species appear to be widely distributed (records are probably incomplete): mostly in tropical Africa and Asia, with Gryllopsis caspicus the only European record (from the Caspian Sea area).[2]

Species

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Yin and Liu give a key to some of the Asian species.[3] The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

  1. Gryllopsis aptera Chopard, 1962
  2. Gryllopsis arenicola (Annandale, 1906)
  3. Gryllopsis brevicaudatus Gorochov, 1986
  4. Gryllopsis cantans (Saussure, 1877)
  5. Gryllopsis capitata Chopard, 1951
  6. Gryllopsis caspicus Gorochov, 1986
  7. Gryllopsis cingulata Chopard, 1960
  8. Gryllopsis crassipes Chopard, 1938
  9. Gryllopsis deminutus Chopard, 1963
  10. Gryllopsis falconneti (Saussure, 1877)
  11. Gryllopsis femorata Chopard, 1935
  12. Gryllopsis flavifrons Chopard, 1967
  13. Gryllopsis furcata (Saussure, 1877)
  14. Gryllopsis fuscicornis Bey-Bienko, 1954
  15. Gryllopsis hebraeus (Saussure, 1877) - type species (as Gryllodes hebraeus Saussure)
  16. Gryllopsis hofmanni (Saussure, 1877)
  17. Gryllopsis insularis (Holdhaus, 1909)
  18. Gryllopsis longicauda Chopard, 1948
  19. Gryllopsis maoria (Saussure, 1877)
  20. Gryllopsis mareotica (Werner, 1905)
  21. Gryllopsis marmorata Chopard, 1963
  22. Gryllopsis nepalicus Ingrisch, 1987
  23. Gryllopsis nigrifrons Chopard, 1951
  24. Gryllopsis ornaticeps (Chopard, 1925)
  25. Gryllopsis ovtshinnikovi Gorochov & Mistshenko, 1991
  26. Gryllopsis pallida Chopard, 1969
  27. Gryllopsis pretzmanni Kaltenbach, 1980
  28. Gryllopsis pubescens Chopard, 1928
  29. Gryllopsis rajasthanensis Bhowmik, 1967
  30. Gryllopsis robusta Chopard, 1933
  31. Gryllopsis saltator (Saussure, 1877)
  32. Gryllopsis tenuitarsus Bey-Bienko, 1954
  33. Gryllopsis vanharteni Gorochov, 2017

References

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  1. ^ Chopard LM (1928) Rec. Ind. Mus. 30: 13.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: Genus Gryllopsis Chopard, 1928 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 22 April 2023)
  3. ^ Yin H, Liu X-W (1995) Synopsis on the classification of Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea from China 47, 193.
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