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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Scaly Crickets (Mogoplistidae)

Family Mogoplistidae - Scaly Crickets

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Internet References
Cricket ID - Cycloptilum trigonipalpum - male Western Bush Cricket - Hoplosphyrum boreale - female Scaly cricket - Cycloptilum comprehendens - female Cycloptilum - female Common Scaly Cricket - Genus Cycloptilum - Cycloptilum - male Cycloptilum comprehendens? - Cycloptilum - female mogoplistid Hoplosphyrum boreale - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Gryllidea (Crickets)
Family Mogoplistidae (Scaly Crickets)
Other Common Names
Wingless Bush Crickets
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Often considered a subfamily (Mogoplistinae) of family Gryllidae.
BugGuide follows the classification of Orthoptera Species File, which treats the group as family Mogoplistidae.
Numbers
20 species in 4 genera in North America listed at Singing Insects of North America
Size
body length 5-13 mm
Identification
body slender, wingless or with small wings, and covered with translucent scales that rub off easily

Cycloptillum - 17 species, southeastern and central U.S. (north to NY)

Hoplosphyrum - 1 species, southwestern U.S.

Cycloptiloides and Oligacanthopus are not yet represented on BugGuide - both are only found in Florida.
Range
mostly southern United States
Habitat
on bushes or under debris in sandy tropical/subtropical areas near water
Internet References
links to species accounts and illustrated key to genera (Singing Insects of North America, U. of Florida)
classification plus common name reference [Scaly Crickets] and literature citations (Orthoptera Species File)
description and common name reference [Wingless Bush Crickets] (britannica.com)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 30 January, 2008 - 9:10pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, metrioptera
Last updated 22 February, 2014 - 1:27pm

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