Gryllotalpa
Mole Cricket at Kambah, ACT
Identify this sighting
| Gryllotalpa nitidula | trevorpreston | 5 Oct 2021 | |
| Gryllotalpa | MichaelBedingfield | 2 Mar 2019 | |
| Gryllotalpa | MatthewFrawley | 2 Mar 2019 |
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
1 comment
5 Oct 2021
In trying to identify mole cricket species using "A Guide To Crickets of Australia" by David Rentz and You Ning Su, I believe this to be Gryllotalpa nitidula. The only group of mole crickets with a smooth and shiny pronotum is the Nitidula group composed of 2 species (Rentz p 354), only one of which occurs in the ACT (the other only occurs in Queenland). Therefore this must be Gryllotalpa nitidula.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.053655-35.384871
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Feb 2019 08:13 PM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Collections
- MatthewFrawley Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Gryllotalpa Scientific name
- Mole Cricket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1035m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
Quality score
4 / 7
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Additional attributes
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description