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species Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874

• Common name(s):  Prairie Mole Cricket; Giant Mole Cricket
• Images:
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (14):
  • Saussure. 1874. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale 6:343   >> Gryllotalpa major    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:25055
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:2   >> Neocurtilla major    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:75974
  • Hubbell & Ortenburger. 1926. Proc. Oklahoma Acad. Sci. 6:179   >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Hebard. 1934. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 20:258   >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:455 >> Neocurtilla major
  • Walker, T.J. & Figg. 1990. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 63(2):237-242   >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Hoffart, K. Jones & P.S.M. Hill. 2002. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 75:123-131 >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Hill, P.S.M., Hoffart & Buchheim. 2002. Jour. Orth. Res. 11(2):171   >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 213 >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Hill, P.S.M., Wells & Shadley. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(1):23-29   >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Howard, D.R. & P.S.M. Hill. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(1):53-57   >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Hollier, Bruckner & Heads. 2013. Revue Suisse de Zool. 120(3):497   >> Note: 1 male syntype >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Keane. 2015. Metaleptea 35(3):9-11   >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Keane, P.S.M. Hill & W. Booth. 2016. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 118(2):382-393 >> Gryllotalpa major
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, North-Central U.S.A., Illinois
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  MHNG Geneva Museum

• synonym ponderosa Bruner, 1886

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