Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2015, The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae), Zootaxa 3985 (4), pp. 451-490 : 474

Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

Diagnosis. Besides the tribal diagnosis: hind tibia with three median spines and four lateral ones. Tympani slitshaped. Veins of lateral field of fore wings all pointing towards wing-tip. Phallic complex: Transversal sclerites of the epiphallus pedunculate, T-or L-shaped. Epiphallus s. s. tubular, longer than wide. Ectophallus: Latero-basal sclerite absent, internal process usually well developed and of diverse shape.

Type species. Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa ( Linnaeus, 1758) .

Comments. No species list for the genus is provided, because this is a specious group to which no species is added and no transcendental taxonomic treatment is yet proposed. Gryllotalpa chilensis ( Saussure, 1861) reinst. stat., goes back to its original combination (previously transferred to the genus Neocurtilla by Chopard in 1968), after checking photographs of the holotype deposited in Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Neuchâtel, that specimen has the process of fore femur knife shaped, the veins of the costal field are non-reticulate. The type specimen of G. chilensis is in bad state and some structures such as eyes and ocelli cannot be observed. It is likely that this species is a synonym of some other already described.