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 <small>Gorochov, 1993</small>
- Acheta arabicus <small>Gorochov, 1993</small>
- Acheta brevipennis <small>Chopard, 1963</small>
- Acheta chudeaui <small>(Chopard, 1927)</small>
- Acheta confalonierii <small>(Capra, 1929)</small>
- Acheta domesticus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> - type species (as Gryllus domesticus Linnaeus)
- Acheta gossypii <small>(Costa, 1855)</small>
- Acheta hispanicus <small>Rambur, 1838</small>
- Acheta latiusculus <small>Gorochov, 1993</small>
- Acheta marioni <small>Théobald, 1937</small>
- Acheta meridionalis <small>(Uvarov, 1921)</small>
- Acheta pachycephalus <small>(Karsch, 1893)</small>
- Acheta pantescus <small>Massa, Cusimano, Fontana & Brizio, 2022</small>
- Acheta pulchellus <small>Gorochov, 2017</small>
- Acheta rufopictus <small>Uvarov, 1957</small>
- Acheta svatoshi <small>Gorochov, 1988</small>
- Acheta turcomanoides <small>Gorochov, 1993</small>
- Acheta turcomanus <small>Gorochov, 1978</small>
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