Mole Cricket at Symonston, ACT
Identification history
| Gryllotalpa nitidula | 5 Oct 2021 | RogerF | ||
| Gryllotalpa nitidula | 5 Oct 2021 | trevorpreston | ||
| Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) | 2 Nov 2016 | KimPullen | ||
| Gryllotalpa sp. (genus) | 28 Oct 2016 | roymcd | ||
| Unidentified | 28 Oct 2016 | roymcd |
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1 comment
trevorpreston
wrote:
5 Oct 2021
In trying to identify mole cricket species using "A Guide To Crickets of Australia" by David Rentz and You Ning Su, I believe this to be Gryllotalpa nitidula. The only group of mole crickets with a smooth and shiny pronotum is the Nitidula group composed of 2 species (Rentz p 354), only one of which occurs in the ACT (the other only occurs in Queenland). Therefore this must be Gryllotalpa nitidula.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.116447-35.344685
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Symonston, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Oct 2016 10:26 AM Recorded on
- roymcd Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) roymcd Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Gryllotalpa nitidula Scientific name
- Mole Cricket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 80.82m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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