list of species keys home help

Subfamily Pentacentrinae

anomalous crickets

link to keys Key to families and subfamilies of crickets.

This subfamily, which is small and largely tropical, is represented in the United States by a single species, Trigonidomimus belfragei. There are four other species in the genus, but none of these occurs north of Panama.

References

Caudell AN. 1912. A new genus and species of Gryllidae from Texas. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 14: 187-189.

Hebard M. 1932. New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 58: 201-371.

Walker, TJ. 1997. Chapter 27. Pentacentrinae: anomalous crickets (prepared for Handbook of Crickets and Katydids, an inactive project).