Brown Bush Cricket
S5, Adult Female, ventral
Ellura
Lined Ground Cricket
Female, dorsal
 
                      
Brown Bush Cricket (Lepidogryllus comparatus)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, ventral🔎

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."

Copyright © 2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 04-Nov-2024
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.