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We report five new Myanmar amber specimens attributable to "Mole Cricket" dagger Pherodactylus rectanguli n. comb., hitherto regarded as a Mole Cricket (Orthoptera: Grylloptalpidae). The new material includes two adult males, two adult females, and one nymph. The specimens are redescribed, and additional new characters are provided for their delimitation and corresponding species identification. We carry out a comparison between these new specimens with other taxa of mole crickets from Myanmar amber and extant true crickets. The result indicates that some species merely represent different nymphal development stages or adults of dagger Pherodactylus rectanguli n. comb., however, they were misidentified as different species. We also treated genera dagger Tresdigitus n. syn. and dagger Chunxiania n. syn. as synonyms of genus dagger Pherodactylus Poinar, Su & Brown, 2020, and treat dagger Tresdigitus gracilis Jiang, Xu, Jarzembowski & Xiao, 2022 n. syn. and dagger Chunxiania fania n. syn. as synonyms of dagger Pherodactylus rectanguli n. comb. dagger Burmagryllotalpa longa is valid, because its shape of the pronotum curved without lateral carinae. The morphological convergences and specializations of subterranean dwelling species are discussed. The robust fore tibia and long apical spurs of dagger P. micromorphus, dagger P. rectanguli n. comb. and dagger B. longa are insufficient evidence for an assignment to the family Gryllotalpidae. Instead, we suggest place them into the subfamily Gryllinae (Gryllidae), tribe Sclerogryllini, and group them into their own subtribe Pherodactylina n. subtr.. A key to the identification of recent and fossil Sclerogryllini is also provided. Their taxonomy and morphology are discussed.
