Ensifera is a suborder of insects that includes the various types of crickets and their allies including: true crickets, camel crickets, bush crickets or katydids, grigs, weta and Cooloola monsters. This and the suborder Caelifera make up the order Orthoptera. Ensifera is believed to be a more ancient group than Caelifera, with its origins in the Carboniferous period, the split having occurred at the end of the Permian period. Unlike the Caelifera, the Ensifera contain numerous members that are partially carnivorous, feeding on other insects, as well as plants.
Mogoplistidae is a family of scaly crickets within the superfamily Grylloidea. Considered to be monophyletic, a sister taxon to the Gryllidae crickets. This family consists of more than 370 species worldwide; 20 species in 4 genera occur in North America and this family includes the scaly crickets of Europe.
Polionemobius is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Nemobiinae. Species can be found in Asia.
Pseudomogoplistes squamiger, the scaly cricket, is a species of apterous cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. Long known in the genus Mogoplistes it was placed this genus, for which it became the type species, by AV Gorochov in 1984.
Pseudomogoplistes is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae, erected by AV Gorochov in 1984. The recorded distribution of species is Europe and North Africa.
Tettigoniidea is an infraorder of the order Orthoptera, with six extant families.
Tympanophyllum is a genus of Southeast Asian bush-crickets in the tribe Phyllomimini within the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Species have been recorded from India, through Indo-China and Malesia to New Guinea. The genus was named in 1902.
Gigantettix is a genus of camel crickets in the subfamily Aemodogryllinae and tribe Diestramimini. The type species, from Vietnam, was originally assigned to the genus Diestramima ; subsequently, other species have been found in the Indo-China region.
Micrornebius is a genus of crickets in the subfamily Mogoplistinae, tribe Mogoplistini.
Tamdaotettix is a genus of cave or camel crickets in the subfamily Aemodogryllinae and tribe Diestramimini. Originating in Asia, species have been found in the Indo-China region.
Gryllini is a tribe of crickets and typical of the family Gryllidae. Species are terrestrial, carnivorous or omnivorous and can be found in all continenents except Antarctica.
Idiotrella is a genus of crickets in the tribe Podoscirtini, erected by A.V. Gorochov in 2002;. Species have been recorded from Indo-China and West Malesia including Borneo.
Modicogryllus is the type genus of crickets in the tribe Modicogryllini. Species have been recorded from: Europe, Africa, the middle East, temperate and tropical Asia through to Australia and western Pacific islands.
Eumodicogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Modicogryllini. Species in this genus are similar to - and were originally considered a subgenus of - Modicogryllus (Eumodicogryllus); they have been recorded from: Europe, northern Africa and temperate Asia.
Pseudothaumaspis is a genus of Asian bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini: in the subfamily Meconematinae. AV Gorochov originally placed these species as a subgenus of Thaumaspis.
Rhinoteratura is a genus of Asian bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini in the new subtribe Meconematina. The genus was erected by AV Gorochov in 1993 as a subgenus of Leptoteratura (Rhinoteratura); he uprated it to genus level in 2022. Species are recorded from Japan, China, Vietnam, and west Malesia.
Mogoplistes is a genus of African and European crickets which is typical of the family Mogoplistidae and tribe Mogoplistini, erected by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1838. This genus is distributed around the Mediterranean in mainland Europe and North Africa. In 1984, the scaly cricket was moved from here to the new genus Pseudomogoplistes.
Arachnocephalus is a genus of crickets in the family Mogoplistidae and typical of the tribe Arachnocephalini, erected by O.G. Costa in 1855. Widespread records of distribution are discontinuous, they include: Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.
Ovaliptila is a genus of European crickets in the subfamily Gryllomorphinae and the tribe Petaloptilini, erected by A.V. Gorochov in 2006. The known distribution – possibly incomplete – of species includes: the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and the Crimean peninsula.
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