Gryllus

Gryllus, a Linnean genus of insects of the order Orthoptera, answering to the section Saltatoria (Lat., 'leapers') of later entomologists, and containing crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, &c. The genus is now restricted to the true crickets—e.g. G. domesticus and G. campestris, while the family Gryllidae is defined to include a not very large number of related genera, such as the mole cricket (Gryllotalpa). See CRICKET, GRASSHOPPER, LOCUST.