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{{Short description|Family of cricket-like animals}} |
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Schizodactylidae
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Schizodactylus monstrosus from Rajasthan | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Superfamily: | Schizodactyloidea |
Family: | Schizodactylidae Karny, 1927 |
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Schizodactylidae is a familyoforthopteran insects found in Asia and southern Africa, known as dune cricketsorsplay-footed crickets. They are usually found in desert and sandy areas. Species are predatory, including Schizodactylus inexspectatus.[2] T. B. Fletcher notes that one captive individual did not feed on any vegetable matter.[3] Fossils are known since the Early Cretaceous.[4]
One extinct and two extant genera in the subfamily Schizodactylinae[5] are included:
Authority: Brullé, 1835; distribution: mainland Asia
Extant Orthoptera families
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