The Gryllotalpoidea are a superfamily of insects that includes the and the .[ The type genus is Gryllotalpa.][Leach. 1815. In Brewster Ed.. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9: 119.][Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker Ed.. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 362.]
Recent (2015) molecular phylogenetic studies support the monophyly of the cricket clade (Gryllidea in the Orthoptera Species File[ Orthoptera Species File infraorder Gryllidea (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 22 December 2018)]) and its subdivision into two clades: Gryllotalpidae and Myrmecophilidae on the one hand, and all the other crickets ( i.e. crickets sensu stricto: seven monophyletic clades, including the scaly crickets Mogoplistidae and Gryllidae).
Families and subfamilies
The Orthoptera Species File lists the following families and subfamilies:[
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