Melanogryllus

{{Short description|Genus of crickets}}

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| taxon = Melanogryllus

| authority = Chopard, 1961

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Melanogryllus is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini, erected by Lucien Chopard in 1961.Chopard LM (1961) Les divisions du genre Gryllus basées sur l'étude de l'appareil copulateur (Orth. Gryllidae). Eos, Revista española de Entomología 37(3), 267–287. [1960] Species appear to be widely distributed (but records are probably incomplete) including: North Africa, mainland Europe (not Scandinavia or the British Isles) and Asia (India, Mongolia and Taiwan).[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1122593 Orthoptera Species File]: Genus Melanogryllus Chopard, 1961 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 22 April 2023)