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  family Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815
subfamily Gryllotalpinae Leach, 1815
genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

species Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874

• Common name(s):  Prairie Mole Cricket; Giant Mole Cricket
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• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (9):
  • Saussure. 1874. Mission scientifique au Méxique et dans l'Amérique centrale 6:343 >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Hebard. 1934. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 20:258 >> Gryllotalpa major  
  • Chopard. 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12:455 >> Neocurtilla
  • Walker, T.J. & Figg. 1990. J Kans Entomol Soc 63(2):237-242 >> Note: Sound characteristics, Missouri >> Gryllotalpa
  • Hoffart, K. Jones & P.S.M. Hill. 2002. J Kans Entomol Soc 75:123-131 >> Note: Argues that Baumgartner's (1905, 1910) female G. borealis was really G. major and not N. hexadactyla; SEM photos of male and female stridulatory files
  • Hill, P.S.M., Hoffart & Buchheim. 2002. Jour. Orth. Res. 11(2):171 >> Note: Cladogram
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 213 >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Howard, D.R. & P.S.M. Hill. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(1):53-57 >> Gryllotalpa major
  • Hill, P.S.M., Wells & Shadley. 2006. Jour. Orth. Res. 15(1):23-29 >> Gryllotalpa major
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, North-Central U.S.A., Illinois
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Sex of type:  male

• synonym ponderosa Bruner, 1885