Mole Crickets: Identification and Distribution

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• Arun Prasanna, V., S. Anbalagan, J. Pandiarajan, S. Dinakaran, and M. Dinakaran. 2012 A new species of the mole cricket genus Gryllotalpa (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Gryllotalpinae) from India. Zootaxa 3597: 41-46. .
  
  
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• Dillman AR, Cronin CJ, Tang J, Gray DA, Sternberg PW. 2014. A modified mole cricket lure and description of Scapteriscus borellii (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) range expansion and calling song in California. Environmental Entomology 43: 146-156.
  
  
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• Frank, J.H. 2020. The identity of the adventive Gryllotalpa Latreille species (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) in Hawaii, with illustration of males genitalia of G. orientalis Burmeister. Insecta Mundi 0747: 1-8.
  
  

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