Genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

Gryllotalpa Latreille 1802: 275 . Type species: Gryllus Acheta gryllotalpa Linnaeus Curtilla Oken 1815: 445 . Type species: Gryllus Acheta gryllotalpa Linnaeus Austrotalpa Mjöberg 1913 . Type species: Austrotalpa pluvialis Mjöberg

Species diversity. 70 species are formally recognised in Orthoptera Species File, including one extinct species (Eades et al., 2016). From the Oriental region, 26 species of Gryllotalpa mole crickets are recorded.

Gryllotalpa breviabdominis Ma & Zhang, 2011 (Fig. 11) Distribution: China (Henan)