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.[3] Apart from the cosmoplitan house cricket, species are recorded from the Palaearctic realm and North America.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Gryllidae |
| Subfamily: | Gryllinae |
| Tribe: | Gryllini |
| Genus: | Acheta Fabricius, 1775[1][2] |
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Species
editThe Orthoptera Species File[2] 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
edit- ^ Fabricius (1775) Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus 279.
- ^ a b c Genus Acheta at Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 16 August 2023)
- ^ [1] 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.
External links
edit- Acheta at Encyclopedia of Life
Data related to Acheta at Wikispecies
