Acheta

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title: "Acheta" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["gryllinae", "orthoptera-genera", "animal-taxa-named-by-carl-linnaeus"] description: "Genus of crickets" topic_path: "general/gryllinae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheta" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of crickets ::

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• Gryllulus Uvarov, 1935

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. Apart from the cosmopolitan house cricket, species are recorded from the Palaearctic realm and North America.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File 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

References

References

1. Fabricius (1775) ''Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus'' 279.
2. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107764*page/481/mode/1up] Determination of the gender attributable to the generic names ''Acheta'' Linnaeus, 1758 (Class Insecta, Order Orthoptera) and ''Geotrupes'' Latreille. 1796 (Class Insecta, Order Coleoptera) (variation of Rulings given in Opinions 299 and 346 respectively). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 12: 433–440.
3. [http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1122533 Genus ''Acheta'' at Orthoptera Species File] (retrieved 16 August 2023)

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