Tridactylus

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| image=Pigmy Mole Cricket (Tridactylus sp.) (13977429463).jpg

| image_caption=Tridactylus sp. (Kruger NP, South Africa)

| taxon=Tridactylus

| authority=Olivier, 1789

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| synonyms = *Heteropus Palisot de Beauvois, 1805

Trydactylus Salfi, 1935

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TridactylusOlivier GA (1789) Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes 4: 26. is a genus of pygmy mole crickets, with species recorded from Africa, India, Indo-China and Australia.[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1100311 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 20 August 2020)]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists:

Tridactylus angustus Günther, 1995
Tridactylus australicus Mjoberg, 1913
Tridactylus berlandi Chopard, 1920
Tridactylus bijakherensis Gupta, Shi & Chandra, 2018
Tridactylus fossor Fabricius, 1798
Tridactylus major Scudder, 1869
Tridactylus paradoxus Latreille, 1802 - type species (locality Dieke, Guinea)
Tridactylus thoracicus Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Tridactylus tithonus Blackith & Blackith, 1979

Note: species such as T. capensis and T. peruvianus Chopard, previously placed here, are now in similar genera such as Ellipes and Xya.

References

{{cite web|title=Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.|url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/tridactylus/match/1|author=Roskov Y.|author2= Kunze T.|author3=Orrell T.|author4=Abucay L.|author5=Paglinawan L.|author6=Culham A.|author7=Bailly N.|author8=Kirk P.|author9=Bourgoin T.|author10=Baillargeon G.|author11=Decock W.|author12=De Wever A.|editor=Didžiulis V.|publisher=Species 2000: Reading, UK.|year=2011|accessdate=6 October 2018}}

External links

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[http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/newslides/011006002001bpd.jpg Cedarcreek.umn.edu: Tridactylus sp.]

Category:Tridactylidae

Category:Orthoptera genera