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Checklist of Crickets North of Mexico

*In this checklist, an asterisk after the common name of a species indicates that the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA) has one or more specimens of the species. Of the 153 species of crickets known to occur in America north of Mexico, FSCA has specimens of 119. Of the 153 SINA species, 120 occur east of the 100th meridian, 87 occur in Florida, and 79 occur in peninsular Florida (south of latitude 30°N).

Few species of crickets have vernacular names. The "common names" listed for each species below are intended for use when the scientific name for the species is inappropriate or insufficient.

Family Gryllotalpidae - mole crickets

Gryllotalpa - seven-spurred mole crickets*

Gryllotalpa cultriger - western mole cricket

Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa - European mole cricket*

Gryllotalpa major - prairie mole cricket*

Neocurtilla

Neocurtilla hexadactyla - northern mole cricket*

Neoscapteriscus - two-clawed mole crickets*

Neoscapteriscus abbreviatus - short-winged mole cricket*

Neoscapteriscus borellii - southern mole cricket*

Neoscapteriscus vicinus - tawny mole cricket*

Family Gryllidae (most other crickets)

Subfamily Gryllinae - field crickets

Acheta

Acheta domesticus - house cricket*

Anurogryllus - short-tailed crickets*

Anurogryllus arboreus - common short-tailed cricket*

Anurogryllus celerinictus - Indies short-tailed cricket*

Gryllita

Gryllita arizonae - Arizona cricket

Gryllodes

Gryllodes sigillatus - tropical house cricket*

Gryllus - field crickets*

Gryllus armatus - armed field cricket*

Gryllus assimilis - Jamaican field cricket*

Gryllus brevicaudus - short-tailed field cricket

Gryllus cayensis - Keys wood cricket*

Gryllus chisosensis - Chisos Mountains field cricket

Gryllus cohni - irregular-trilling field cricket

Gryllus firmus - sand field cricket*

Gryllus fultoni - southern wood cricket*

Gryllus integer - mud crack field cricket

Gryllus leei - Utah lava field cricket

Gryllus lightfooti - arboreal desert field cricket

Gryllus lineaticeps - variable field cricket

Gryllus longicercus - long cercus field cricket

Gryllus makhosica - Badland's National Park field cricket

Gryllus montis - mountain wood cricket

Gryllus multipulsator - long-chirp field cricket*

Gryllus navajo - Painted Desert field cricket

Gryllus ovisopis - taciturn wood cricket*

Gryllus pennsylvanicus - fall field cricket*

Gryllus personatus - badlands cricket

Gryllus planeta - McDonald Observatory wood cricket

Gryllus regularis - Southwest regular-trilling field cricket

Gryllus rubens - southeastern field cricket*

Gryllus saxatilis - Western rock-loving field cricket

Gryllus sotol - Organ Mountains field cricket

Gryllus staccato - stutter-chirping field cricket

Gryllus texensis - Southeast fast trilling field cricket*

Gryllus thinos - Texas beach field cricket

Gryllus transpecos - Texas Trans-Pecos field cricket

Gryllus veintinueve - Number 29 field cricket

Gryllus veletis - spring field cricket*

Gryllus veletisoides - West Coast spring field cricket

Gryllus vernalis - northern wood cricket*

Gryllus vocalis - vocal field cricket

Gryllus vulcanus - New Mexico lava field cricket

Miogryllus - lesser field crickets*

Miogryllus lineatus - western striped cricket*

Miogryllus saussurei - eastern striped cricket*

Velarifictorus

Velarifictorus micado - Japanese burrowing cricket*

Subfamily "Eneopterinae" - bush crickets

Antillicharis

Antillicharis oriobates - Indies bush cricket*

Hapithus - flightless bush crickets*

Hapithus agitator - restless bush cricket*

Hapithus brevipennis - short-winged bush cricket*

Hapithus melodius - musical bush cricket*

Orocharis - loud-singing bush crickets*

Orocharis diplastes - Keys bush cricket*

Orocharis luteolira - false jumping bush cricket*

Orocharis nigrifrons - black-faced bush cricket*

Orocharis saltator - jumping bush cricket*

Orocharis tricornis - three-horned bush cricket*

Xenogryllus

Xenogryllus unipartitus - lychee bush cricket*

Subfamily Mogoplistinae - scaly crickets

Cycloptiloides

Cycloptiloides americanus - Saussure's scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum- common scaly crickets*

Cycloptilum ainiktos - obscure scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum albocircum- banded scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum bidens- two-toothed scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum comprehendens - syncopated scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum distinctum - distinctive scaly cricket

Cycloptilum exsanguis- pale scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum irregularis- Keys scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum kelainopum- black-faced scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum pigrum - reluctant scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum quatrainum - four-pair scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum slossoni- Slosson's scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum spectabile- spectacular scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum squamosum- Scudder's scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum tardum - slow scaly cricket

Cycloptilum trigonipalpum - forest scaly cricket*

Cycloptilum velox - swift scaly cricket

Cycloptilum zebra - zebra scaly cricket*

Hoplosphyrum

Hoplosphyrum boreale - long-winged scaly cricket*

Oligacanthopus

Oligacanthopus prograptus - silent scaly cricket*

Subfamily Myrmecophilinae - ant crickets

Myrmecophilus

Myrmecophilus americanus - Old World ant cricket

Myrmecophilus manni - Mann's ant cricket*

Myrmecophilus nebrascensis - Nebraska ant cricket

Myrmecophilus oregonensis - Oregon ant cricket*

Myrmecophilus pergandei - eastern ant cricket*

Subfamily Nemobiinae - ground crickets

Nemobius

Nemobius sylvestris - woods ground cricket

Allonemobius - robust ground crickets*

Allonemobius allardi - Allard's ground cricket*

Allonemobius fasciatus - striped ground cricket*

Allonemobius fultoni - Fulton's ground cricket*

Allonemobius griseus - gray ground cricket*

Allonemobius maculatus - spotted ground cricket*

Allonemobius shalontaki - Choctaw ground cricket*

Allonemobius socius - southern ground cricket*

Allonemobius sparsalus - salt-marsh ground cricket*

Allonemobius tinnulus - tinkling ground cricket*

Allonemobius walkeri - Walker's ground cricket*

Eunemobius - even-spurred ground crickets*

Eunemobius carolinus - Carolina ground cricket*

Eunemobius confusus - confused ground cricket*

Eunemobius melodius - melodious ground cricket*

Neonemobius - small ground crickets*

Neonemobius cubensis - Cuban ground cricket*

Neonemobius eurynotus - California ground cricket

Neonemobius mormonius - Mormon ground cricket*

Neonemobius palustris - sphagnum ground cricket*

Neonemobius variegatus - variegated ground cricket*

Pictonemobius - bar-faced ground crickets*

Pictonemobius ambitiosus - ambitious ground cricket*

Pictonemobius arenicola - sandhills ground cricket*

Pictonemobius hubbelli - Hubbell's ground cricket*

Pictonemobius uliginosus - flatwoods ground cricket*

Hygronemobius

Hygronemobius alleni - mangrove ground cricket*

Subfamily Oecanthinae - tree crickets

Neoxabea - smooth-legged tree crickets*

Neoxabea bipunctata - two-spotted tree cricket*

Neoxabea formosa - Brownsville tree cricket*

Oecanthus - common tree crickets*

Oecanthus alexanderi - Alexander's tree cricket*

Oecanthus argentinus - prairie tree cricket*

Oecanthus beameri - White Sands tree cricket*

Oecanthus californicus - western tree cricket*

Oecanthus celerinictus - fast-calling tree cricket*

Oecanthus exclamationis - Davis's tree cricket*

Oecanthus forbesi - Forbes's tree cricket*

Oecanthus fultoni - snowy tree cricket*

Oecanthus laricis - tamarack tree cricket*

Oecanthus latipennis - broad-winged tree cricket*

Oecanthus leptogrammus - thin-lined tree cricket*

Oecanthus major - great tree cricket*

Oecanthus nigricornis - black-horned tree cricket*

Oecanthus niveus - narrow-winged tree cricket*

Oecanthus pini - pine tree cricket*

Oecanthus quadripunctatus - four-spotted tree cricket*

Oecanthus rileyi - Riley's tree cricket*

Oecanthus salvii - sage tree cricket

Oecanthus texensis - Texas tree cricket*

Oecanthus varicornis - different-horned tree cricket*

Oecanthus walkeri - Walker's tree cricket*

Subfamily Pentacentrinae - anomalous crickets

Trigonidomimus

Trigonidomimus belfragei - Belfrage's cricket

Subfamily Podoscirtinae - bush crickets

Tafalisca

Tafalisca eleuthera - robust bush cricket*

Subfamily Trigonidiinae - sword-tail crickets/trigs

Anaxipha - brown sword-tail crickets*

Anaxipha calusa - Calusa trig*

Anaxipha delicatula - chirping trig*

Anaxipha exigua - Say’s trig*

Anaxipha fultoni - Fulton's trig*

Anaxipha hyalicetra - Arizona trig

Anaxipha imitator - Cuban trig*

Anaxipha litarena - beach trig*

Anaxipha rosamacula - pink-spotted trig*

Anaxipha scia - mangrove trig*

Anaxipha thomasi - Thomas's trig*

Anaxipha tinnula - tidewater trig*

Anaxipha tinnulacita - fast-tinkling trig*

Anaxipha tinnulenta - slow-tinkling trig*

Anaxipha vernalis - spring trig*

Cyrtoxipha - green sword-tail crickets*

Cyrtoxipha columbiana - Columbian trig*

Cyrtoxipha confusa - complex-trilling trig*

Cyrtoxipha gundlachi - Gundlach's trig*

Cyrtoxipha nola - mangrove green trig*

Falcicula

Falcicula hebardi - Hebard's trig*

Phyllopalpus

Phyllopalpus pulchellus - handsome trig*

*In this checklist, an asterisk after the common name of a species indicates that the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA) has one or more specimens of the species. Of the 153 species of crickets known to occur in America north of Mexico, FSCA has specimens of 119. Of the 153 SINA species, 120 occur east of the 100th meridian, 87 occur in Florida, and 79 occur in peninsular Florida (south of latitude 30°N).

Few species of crickets have vernacular names. The "common names" listed for each species above are intended for use when the scientific name for the species is inappropriate or insufficient.