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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Field Crickets (Gryllinae)

Subfamily Gryllinae - Field Crickets

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Is this a house cricket? - Gryllus firmus - female Field cricket - Velarifictorus micado - female Collared Nymph - Gryllus Extremely common species of cricket - Gryllus pennsylvanicus - female Found in my garage - Velarifictorus micado - female which field cricket (gryllus) sp.? - Gryllus - male handraised Grylus texensis female moulting to full adult - series - Gryllus - female Field Cricket -- Gryllus pennsylvanicus? - Gryllus - female
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 Gryllidae (True Crickets)
Subfamily Gryllinae (Field Crickets)
Numbers
20 species in 7 genera north of Mexico (1)
Identification
Overview of genera:

Acheta - 1 species, introduced, can be found almost anywhere.

Anurogryllus - 2 species, southeastern U.S.

Gryllita - 1 species, southwestern U.S.

Gryllodes - 1 species, introduced, southern U.S.

Gryllus - 17 species, 1 introduced, entire U.S.


Miogryllus - 2 species, eastern and western U.S.

Velarifictorus - 1 species, introduced, eastern U.S. and spreading
Works Cited
1.Singing Insects of North America
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 7 March, 2007 - 12:25pm
Additional contributions by metrioptera
Last updated 16 September, 2018 - 10:38am

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