Scaly Cricket

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Pseudomogoplistes squamiger, the scaly cricket, is a species of apterous cricket in the family Mogoplistidae. Long known in the genus Mogoplistes it was placed this genus, for which it became the type species, by AV Gorochov in 1984. Distribution and habitat Usually found near the sea on pebble beaches, its native range is in southern Europe and northern Africa, but since the 1960s it has been recorded from Dorset, and later Devon in the British Isles.

Mogoplistidae es una familia de insectos en la superfamilia Grylloidea del orden Orthoptera. ​ Esta familia de grillos con escamas es considerada monofilética, un taxón hermano de los grillos Gryllidae. La familia comprende 30 géneros y 364 especies distribuidas por todo el mundo;​ 20 especies de 4 géneros se encuentran en América del Norte y esta familia incluye los Pseudomogoplistes squamiger europeos.