Acheta
Genus of crickets
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Acheta is a genus of crickets. It most notably contains the house cricket (Acheta domesticus). According to Direction 46 issued by the ICZN in 1956, this generic name is masculine in gender.[3] Apart from the cosmopolitan house cricket, species are recorded from the Palaearctic realm and North America.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Gryllidae |
| Subfamily: | Gryllinae |
| Tribe: | Gryllini |
| Genus: | Acheta Fabricius, 1775[1][2] |
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Species
The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:
- Acheta angustiusculus Gorochov, 1993
- Acheta arabicus Gorochov, 1993
- Acheta brevipennis Chopard, 1963
- Acheta chudeaui (Chopard, 1927)
- Acheta confalonierii (Capra, 1929)
- Acheta domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Gryllus domesticus Linnaeus)
- Acheta gossypii (Costa, 1855)
- Acheta hispanicus Rambur, 1838
- Acheta latiusculus Gorochov, 1993
- †Acheta marioni Théobald, 1937
- Acheta meridionalis (Uvarov, 1921)
- Acheta pachycephalus (Karsch, 1893)
- Acheta pantescus Massa, Cusimano, Fontana & Brizio, 2022
- Acheta pulchellus Gorochov, 2017
- Acheta rufopictus Uvarov, 1957
- Acheta svatoshi Gorochov, 1988
- Acheta turcomanoides Gorochov, 1993
- Acheta turcomanus Gorochov, 1978
