Mole cricket at Wamboin, NSW
Identification history
| Gryllotalpa australis | 5 Oct 2021 | RogerF | ||
| Gryllotalpa australis | 5 Oct 2021 | trevorpreston | ||
| Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) | 21 Dec 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) | 21 Dec 2018 | natureguy |
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User's notes
Found underground when digging.
1 comment
trevorpreston
wrote:
5 Oct 2021
I have suggested this mole cricket is Gryllotalpa australis (Rentz p357). It is not nitidula because its pronota is not smooth shiny and dark, leaving australis or coarctata. I believe its australis because of how dark the tegmina are anterior to the stridulatory vein.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.274133-35.254991
- Places Wamboin, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 9 Nov 2018 06:15 PM Recorded on
- natureguy Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) natureguy
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Gryllotalpa australis Scientific name
- Mole cricket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 709.17m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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