![]() | Australian Mole Cricket S1, Male, Mandibles | The Confusing Mole Cricket Male, profile | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | The Confusing Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa coarctata)This Photo: | 🔍Male, dorsal🔎 | Thank you Thaddeus Charles Jones for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Record in SA on Atlas: ~31mm long. It has hairy antennae, and is fact relatively furry. Notice the powerful front claws for digging dirt & making tunnels. The rear legs have long spines for moving the loose dirt back.
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