Black Raspy Cricket
Dorsal
Ellura
Black Raspy Cricket
Antennae
 
                      
Black Raspy Cricket (Hadrogryllacris sp ES01)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)
Family: Leaf-rolling Cricket (Gryllacrididae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Black Raspy Cricket (Hadrogryllacris sp ES01)
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Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~27mm long nymph (female, 5th/final instar) with antennae a whopping nearly 80mm
Very little is published on Australian raspy crickets. Here we have gone to species because of colour; no other raspy crickets are black (that we are aware of).
Notice here the ovi-positor curling up and over the abdomen. We think this straightens out in the adult.
In his cricket book, Rentz says Raspy Crickets are closer to Katydids than True Crickets, but unfortunately doesn't cover them in either his Cricket nor Katydid books.

Copyright © 2023-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 06-Jan-2023
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.