Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Mole Cricket)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesGryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Mole Cricket)
FamilyGRYLLOTALPIDAE (mole-crickets)
OrderORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Mole Cricket) :
1: Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Mole Cricket)
Jun 2003 Code: CH Switzerland
Swiss specimen
Image 1: Dorsal viewImage 2: Dorsal view (2)Image 3: Dorsal view (3)Image 4: Front leg - dorsalImage 5: Front leg - dorsal (2)Image 6: Front leg - ventralImage 7: Front leg - ventral (2)Image 8: Latero-dorsal viewImage 9: Latero-dorsal view (2)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Brock, P.D. 2017 Mole Cricket, Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (L.), in the New Forest, Hampshire Atropos Vol 58: 27-33.
Sutton, P. 2004 Mole Cricket Vol 16, No 1 Page: 55

Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Mole Cricket) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Mole Cricket)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Mole Cricket)
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