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Acheta
Sign in to saveAcheta 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. Apart from the cosmopolitan house cricket, species are recorded from the Palaearctic realm and North America.
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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. Apart from the cosmopolitan house cricket, species are recorded from the Palaearctic realm and North America.
==Species== The Orthoptera Species File 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