Mole Cricket at Belconnen, ACT
Identification history
| Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) | 23 Aug 2016 | RogerF | ||
| Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) | 23 Aug 2016 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Aug 2016 | CathB |
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User's notes
A mole cricket? Found dead on bike path early in the morning.
1 comment
RogerF
wrote:
24 Aug 2016
Most local mole-cricket species are fully winged and fly readily at night often coming to light. This ant-covered ?male is brachypterous (short-winged) and flightless which could help with a specific ID.. There is a species called G. brachyptera.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.072544-35.266806
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Belconnen, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Mar 2016 07:10 AM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Mole Cricket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1035m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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