Tridactylidae

[‚trī·dak′til·ə‚dē]

(invertebrate zoology)

The pygmy mole crickets, a family of insects in the order Orthoptera, highly specialized for fossorial existence.

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The 20 records available to me are as follows (sex of asilid bracketed): Coleoptera: Buprestidae ([female]), Coccinellidae ([female]), Dermestidae ([male]), Melyridae ([female]), Scarabaeidae (3[male] 3[female]); Diptera: Muscidae ([male]); Hemiptera: Lygaeidae ([male]), Pentatomidae ([male]); Isoptera: Hodotermitidae (3[male] 2[female]); Orthoptera: Tridactylidae (2[male]).

A review of Afrotropical Acnephalum Macquart, 1838, including the reinstatement of Sporadothrix Hermann, 1907 and descriptions of two new genera (Diptera: Asilidae: Stenopogoninae)

Suborden Superfamilia Familia Ensifera Grylloidea Gryllidae Tettigonioidea Tettigoniidae Caelifera Acridoidea Acrididae Eumastacoidea Eumastacidae Pamphagoidea Pyrgomorphidae Tetrigoidea Tetrigidae Tridactyloidea Tridactylidae Subfamilia Genero Morfoespecie Eneopterinae Eneoptera Eneoptera sp.

Estructura de las comunidades de Orthoptera (Insecta) en un gradiente altitudinal de un bosque andino

Tridactylidea contains a single extant superfamily Tridactyloidea, which consists of three families: Cylindrachetidae, Ripipterygidae and Tridactylidae.