Anurogryllus

{{Short description|Genus of crickets}}

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| image_caption = Anurogryllus muticus

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| taxon = Anurogryllus

| authority = Saussure, 1877 {{cite web |url=http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1122914 |title=Genus Anurogryllus |author= |date= |work=Orthoptera Species File |accessdate=2015-07-07}}

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Anurogryllus, commonly known as short-tailed crickets, is a genus of crickets in the tribe Gryllini; species are recorded from the Americas. The common and scientific names derive from the vestigial, poorly developed ovipositors of females.{{cite web |url=http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/g491a.htm |title=Genus Anurogryllus |author=Walker, Thomas J. |work=Singing Insects of North America (SINA) |accessdate=2015-07-06}}{{cite journal|last=Walker|first=T. J.|year= 1973|title= Systematics and acoustic behavior of U.S. and Caribbean short-tailed crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Anurogryllus)|journal= Annals of the Entomological Society of America|volume= 66|pages= 1269–1277|url=http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/g491lw73.pdf|doi=10.1093/aesa/66.6.1269}}