Straw-coloured Ground Cricket
S1, Female, ventral
Mottled Bush Cricket
Adult Male, dorsal, ~14mm
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| Straw-coloured Ground Cricket S1, Female, ventral | | Mottled Bush Cricket Adult Male, dorsal, ~14mm | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | True Cricket (Grylloidea: Gryllidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Straw-coloured Ground Cricket (Cyrtoprosopus stramineus)| This Photo: | 🔍S2, Male, ventral🔎 | Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~9mm long Female & ~10mm long Male. Note the antennae which are regularly punctuated with a dark segments. These match in location between the antennae, so not random. At first we thought they may be teneral, not realising there were so many pale crickets around. Looks a lot like Natula longipennis, but the wing venation is netted (not just longitudinal veins) and while the legs spines are quite long, the leg itself seems quite thick. Of course it'd also be a LONG way out of range for that species. Plus it seems it's easily confused with Anaxipha, so we shouldn't go to genus either.
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