-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids (Order Orthoptera)

-Katydids, Crickets, and Allies (Suborder Ensifera)

-Crickets (Infraorder Gryllidea)

-True Crickets and Allies (Superfamily Grylloidea)

-True Crickets (Family Gryllidae)

-Field Crickets (Subfamily Gryllinae)

-Tribe Gryllini

-Subtribe Brachytrupina

-Genus Gryllodes

-Tropical House Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)

The tropical house cricket is a 13 to 18 mm long, light yellowish-brown, somewhat flattened cricket. It is common in urban areas and sometimes occurs indoors. The tropical house cricket is probably native to southwestern Asia but has been spread by commerce to tropical regions throughout the world.