EditorialSchizodactylus, Print, Schizodactylidae is a family of orthopteran insects found in Asia and Africa, known as dune crickets or splay-footed crickets. They are usually found in desert and sandy areas. Some species are predatory, including Schizodactylus...
EditorialSchizodactylus monstrosus cricket 1, and giant tobacco cricket, Brachytrupes membranaceus 2. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.
EditorialSchizodactylus monstrosus cricket with wings extended. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1805.