Family Gryllidae Laicharting 1781 (true crickets)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Gryllidae

Full reference: J. N. E. Laicharting. 1781. Verzeichniß und Beschreibung der Tyroler-Insecten. I. Theil. Käferartige Insecten. I. Band 1-248

Parent taxon: Grylloidea according to O. J. Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2023

Sister taxa: Araripegryllus romualdoi, Baissogryllidae, Mogoplistidae, Oecanthidae, Phalangopsidae, Protogryllidae, Pteroplistinae, Trigonidiidae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)

• Miocene of Croatia (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Germany (1)

• Oligocene of France (3), Germany (1)

• Eocene of Denmark (5), France (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (27: Colorado, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Argentina (2), France (1)

• Cretaceous of Botswana (1), Brazil (6), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (6), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic of Germany (4), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Triassic of the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 82 collections including 165 occurrences

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