Tartarogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by S.P. Tarbinsky in 1940.[1] The known distribution (possibly incomplete) of species includes: N Africa, S Europe (Spain, Turkey) through to western Asia.[2]

Tartarogryllus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Gryllidae
Subfamily: Gryllinae
Tribe: Gryllini
Genus: Tartarogryllus
Tarbinsky, 1940
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Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

  1. Tartarogryllus atlantis (Chopard, 1943)
  2. Tartarogryllus bidentatus Roy, 1969
  3. Tartarogryllus cyrenaicus (Werner, 1908)
  4. Tartarogryllus fadlii Defaut, 1987
  5. Tartarogryllus jakesi Chopard, 1968
  6. Tartarogryllus rungsi (Morales-Agacino, 1947)
  7. Tartarogryllus sandanski Andreeva, 1982
  8. Tartarogryllus tartarus (Saussure, 1874) - type species (as Gryllus tartarus Saussure = T. tartarus tartarus)

Note Other species names, previously placed in this genus, may now be included in Eumodicogryllus.

References

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  1. ^ Tarbinsky SP (1940) In The Saltatorian Orthopterous Insects of the Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. [in Russian]. Acad. Sci. Azyerbaidjankoi S.S.R., Moscow-Leningrad. 245 pp.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Tartarogryllus Tarbinsky, 1940 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 2 August 2024)
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