Brown Bush Cricket
S5, Adult Female, close up
Brown Bush Cricket
S6, Adult Male, Face
| Brown Bush Cricket S5, Adult Female, close up | | Brown Bush Cricket S6, Adult Male, Face | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | True Cricket (Grylloidea: Gryllidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Brown Bush Cricket (Lepidogryllus comparatus) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S7, Adult Female, close up🔎 | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Males & Females are ~18mm long (body & head), with antennae that are longer than the body. Females have a long ovi-positor which is partially concealed by the hind wing tips. As such, males which also have the same rolled/pointed hindwing tips look quite similar. Males have a very different wing venation to females. Can be differentiated from Black Bush Crickets by the streak marks on the head and pale legs. Matthew said "Yep looks good to me! L. comparatus and L. parvulus are outwardly identical but I am not aware of any L. parvulus records from SA so I think you are good with L. comparatus. If you really want to be sure, you can count the teeth on the stridulatory file - ~108-143 in L. comparatus and ~97-128 in L. parvulus. The call of the male is the only truly reliable way to tell them apart". On a different observation Matthew said " L. parvulus has a much faster call (~5 chirps per second) than L. comparatus." | |||||
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