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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Grylloblatta

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Notoptera (Rock Crawlers)
Suborder Grylloblattodea (Rock Crawlers)
Family Grylloblattidae
Genus Grylloblatta
Explanation of Names
Grylloblatta Walker 1914
Numbers
15 described and about as many undescribed spp./sspp. in our area(1)
Range
precinctive to nw. US & w. Canada(2)
Works Cited
1.Updated checklist of the ice-crawlers (Insecta: Grylloblattodea: Grylloblattidae) of North America...
Schoville S.D., Graening G.O. 2013. Zootaxa 3737: 351-378.
2.Ice crawlers (Grylloblattodea) – the history of the investigation of a highly unusual group of insects
Wipfler B., Bai M., Schoville S., Dallai R., Uchifune T., Machida R., Cui Y., Beutel R.G. 2014. Journal of Insect Diversity 2: 1-25.
3.University of Alberta Entomology Collection