The Confusing Mole Cricket: Male, dorsal

The Confusing Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa coarctata)

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.
One male found in Nov.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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