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  subfamily Gryllinae Laicharting, 1781
tribe Modicogryllini Otte & Alexander, 1983
genus Gryllodes Saussure, 1874

species Gryllodes sigillatus (Walker, 1869)

• Common name(s):  Indian House Cricket; Tropical House Cricket; Kurzflügelgrille
• Images:
  • male (Gryllodes poeyi; body length 16.5 mm); specimen
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
• Distribution:
  • Map based on specimen latitude/longitude data.
• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (31):
  • Walker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 1:108 >> Gryllus sigillatus  
  • Saussure. 1874. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale 6:409 >> Gryllodes
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1912. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 64(2):274 >> Gryllodes sigillatus  
  • Hebard. 1925. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 51:306 >> Gryllodes sigillatus  
  • Hebard. 1928. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 54:240  
  • Chopard [Ed.]. 1967. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 10:108 >> Gryllodes
  • Chopard. 1970. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Cent. 8(181):193 >> Note: In St Helena
  • Vasanth. 1982. Ph.D Thesis, Univ. Calcutta 165 >> Note: India:
  • Gorochov. 1983. In Bodrova, Soboleva & Meshcheryakov [Ed.]. Systematics and ecological-faunistic review of the various orders of Insecta of the Far East 43 >> Gryllodes supplicans
  • Subramaniam, M. & Subramoniam. 1990. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 66(1):65 >> Note: Sperm packets, sexual maturation, courtship
  • Sakaluk, Burpee & R.L. Smith. 1992. Canad. J. Zool. 70(3):453
  • Nickle. 1992. In Quintero & Aiello [Ed.]. Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies 186 >> Gryllodes supplicans
  • Gorochov [Ed.]. 1993. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 13:82 >> Note: In Saudi Arabia >> Gryllodes supplicans
  • Burpee & Sakaluk. 1993. Jour. Ins. Behav. 6(4):431
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 1:11 >> Note: Status: valid species >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Oshiro. 1995. Studies on the Gryllidae from the Ryukyu Islands 63
  • van Elst & T. Schulte. 1995. Articulata 10(2):185-191 >> Note: Acoustic signals, Germany
  • Yin, Haisheng & Xiangwei Liu. 1995. Synopsis on the classification of Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea from China 48 >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Peck. 1996. Canad. J. Zool. 74(8):1497-1510, illustr. >> Note: on Galápagos >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Rentz, D.C.F. 1996. Grasshopper Country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia 127 pl.182 >> Gryllodes sigillatus  
  • Devapaul, Reni-Prabha, Subramanian & Varadaraj. 1998. Jour. Endoc. & Reprod. 2(1-2):17 >> Note: Size, oogenesis, ovary, development
  • Devapaul, Muralidharan, Subramanian & Varadaraj. 1998. Jour. Ecobiology 10(1):71 >> Note: Oogenesis; ovary
  • Warwick & et al. 1998. Abstract presented at 7th International Behavioral Ecology Congress >> Gryllodes supplicans
  • Coray & A.W. Lehmann. 1998. Articulata Beiheft 7:92 >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Luong, Platzer, De Ley & W.K. Thomas. 1999. J. Parasitol. 85(6):1053-1064 >> Note: Parasite phylogeny >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Ichikawa, Murai & Honda. 2000. Bulletin of the Hoshizaki Green Foundation 4:269 >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Bland. 2001. Jour. Orth. Res. 10(1):117 >> Gryllodes supplicans
  • Bland & Desutter-Grandcolas. 2003. Jour. Orth. Res. 12(2):120 >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 197, Plate 43 >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Storozhenko. 2004. Dlinousye pryamokrylye nasekomye (Orthoptera: Ensifera) asiatskoi chasti Rossii [Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia] 196 >> Note: valid species >> Gryllodes sigillatus
  • Otte, D. 2006. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 132(1-2):223 >> Note: valid species >> Gryllodes sigillatus

• synonym abyssinicus (Bolívar, 1922)
• synonym bifasciata (Walker, 1875)
• synonym fuscoirroratus (Bolívar, 1895)
• synonym indicus (Bolívar, 1900)
• synonym nanus (Walker, 1869)
• synonym poeyi Saussure, 1874
• synonym pustulipes (Walker, 1869)
• synonym subapterus Chopard, 1912
• synonym tokyonis (Okazaki, 1926)
• synonym transversalis (Scudder, 1901)
• synonym walkeri (Saussure, 1877)