Mole cricket at Lyneham, ACT
Identification history
| Gryllotalpa australis | 4 Dec 2021 | RogerF | ||
| Gryllotalpa australis | 3 Dec 2021 | trevorpreston | ||
| Gryllotalpa sp. | 2 Dec 2021 | trevorpreston |
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User's notes
Under rock in lyneham high school courtyard. 20-25mm
1 comment
trevorpreston
wrote:
3 Dec 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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.129634-35.252636
- Maps Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South
- Places Lyneham, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 2 Dec 2021 12:58 PM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) trevorpreston
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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