Lined Ground Cricket
Female, Face
Black Bush Cricket
Female
Animals
Plants
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| Lined Ground Cricket Female, Face | | Black Bush Cricket Female | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | True Cricket (Grylloidea: Gryllidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Lined Ground Cricket (Salmanites sp)| This Photo: | 🔍Female, anterior🔎 | Thank you Matthew Connors & Prof Tony Robillard for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~10mm long female (head+body), with her ovipositor twice that at ~20mm. A small dark cricket with a heringbone like pattern on her back. We assume she's an adult by the length of her ovipositor, which shows she is wingless and therefore flightless; not unusual with crickets. Typically considered a Northern Australia genera, it seems they also inhabit the dry regions to the South. Tony suggests "that it is probably new"; ie an undescribed species. This also means that the genus level id could be changed once/if it's described.
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