Pseudomogoplistes squamiger

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Pseudomogoplistes squamiger, the scaly cricket, is a species of apterous cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. Long known in the genus Mogoplistes it was placed this genus, for which it became the type species, by AV Gorochov in 1984.[2]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Ensifera
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Pseudomogoplistes squamiger
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Mogoplistidae
Subfamily: Mogoplistinae
Tribe: Arachnocephalini
Genus: Pseudomogoplistes
Species:
P. squamiger
Binomial name
Pseudomogoplistes squamiger
(Fischer, 1853)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gryllus squamiger Fischer, 1853
  • Mogoplistus squamiger (Fischer, 1853)
  • Mogoplistes talitrus Costa, 1855
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Distribution and habitat

Usually found near the sea on pebble beaches,[3] its native range is in southern Europe and northern Africa,[4] but since the 1960s it has been recorded from Dorset, and later Devon[5] in the British Isles.[3]

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