Sword-tail Cricket: S1, Male, Face

Sword-tail Cricket (Trigonidium vittaticolle)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Pygmy Cricket (Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Sword-tail Cricket (Trigonidium vittaticolle)

This Photo:

S1, Male, Face

Synonyms:

Metioche vittaticollis or Trigonidium (Metioche) vittaticollis

Thank you George Seagull for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~6mm long Male.
Matthew said "I think it is the correct ID here. Metioche vittaticollis and Trigonidomorpha sjostedti are essentially identical without looking at the stridulatory file but the latter has not been recorded near SA"

This species is

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

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