Tridactyloidea[1] is a superfamily in the order Orthoptera. The insects are sometimes known as pygmy mole crickets but they are Caelifera and not members of the mole cricket suborder Ensifera, unlike the true mole crickets, the Gryllotalpidae. It is composed of three families that contain a total of about 50 species. Insects in this superfamily can be 4 to 9 millimeters in length and generally have short antennae and long wings. They live along the banks of bodies of water in tropical areas and are good swimmers and jumpers. Fossils of this subfamily have been found in Siberian deposits dating back to the Cretaceous.[2][3]
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^Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1979). Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Macmillan Publishers.
^Otte, Daniel (1997). Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea. The Orthopterists' Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. p. 261.
Tridactyloidea is a superfamily in the order Orthoptera. The insects are sometimes known as pygmy mole crickets but they are Caelifera and not members...
with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea). The latter should not be confused with the mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae)...
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Tridactylidae, einschließlich der Beschreibung neuer Arten (Orthoptera, Tridactyloidea) 'Afrotridactylus gen. n., a new African genus of the family Tridactylidae...
Tridactylidae, einschließlich der Beschreibung neuer Arten (Orthoptera, Tridactyloidea) 'Afrotridactylus gen. n., a new African genus of the family Tridactylidae...
Tridactylidae which, together with the Cylindrachetidae, form the superfamily Tridactyloidea (Rentz 1996). The family Tridactylidae in turn were split into two families...
crickets are not closely related to the "pygmy mole crickets", the Tridactyloidea, which are in the grasshopper suborder Caelifera rather than the cricket...
20 August 2020) Günther KK (1980) Katalog der Caelifera-Unterordnung Tridactyloidea (Insecta), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (Deutsch. entomol. Z...
States. Cornell University Press. Otte, Daniel (1997). "Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera)". Orthoptera Species File 6, 261. v t e...
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