gryllotalpan.
/ˌɡrɪləʊˈtalpə/ The mole-cricket.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Gryllotalpidae > member of genus Gryllotalpa
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gryllo-talpa.]
1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto III 13 Bats shriek'd, and grillatalpas join'd the sound.
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat II. 325 His clothes were full of beetles, bats, lizards, gryllotalpas and scolopendras that crawled all over him.
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