Gryllotalpa australis

2 Mole cricket at Beechworth, VIC

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Identification history

Gryllotalpa australis	16 Jan 2024	trevorpreston
Gryllotalpa australis	13 May 2022	trevorpreston
Unverified	12 Apr 2022	micosaus

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Mole cricket?

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trevorpreston wrote:

13 May 2022

I have suggested this mole cricket is Gryllotalpa australis (Rentz p357). It is not nitidula because its pronota is not smooth shiny and dark, leaving australis or coarctata. I believe its australis because of how dark the tegmina are.

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Location information

Maps Beechworth Historic Park
Places Beechworth, VIC

Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
micosaus Recorded by
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Insects Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) micosaus Hume NatureMapr

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Gryllotalpa australis Scientific name
Mole cricket Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 709.17m Recorded at altitude
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