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Allard’s Ground Cricket (Allonemobius allardi)
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Copyright © 2007
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Cricket -
Allonemobius allardi
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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens County, New York, USA
August 26, 2007
Size: ~1.2 cm
On sidewalk
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Contributed by
Elliotte Rusty Harold
on 26 August, 2007 - 7:48pm
Last updated 31 July, 2010 - 2:21pm
species ID is still tentative, but she seems to fit here best
Moved from
Allonemobius
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David J. Ferguson
, 31 July, 2010 - 2:21pm
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Eric R. Eaton
, 9 October, 2007 - 3:50pm
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Adult Female Ground Cricket
This is a long-winged variant of one of the robust ground cricket species, something in the
Allonemobius
genus. Atypically coloured for a striped ground cricket, the most common species, but might be an Allard's or
Allonemobius allardi
. Associating the females with their respective males is about the only way to get a sure ID when you've got a bunch of species possibilites in your region, though. To narrow down your own ID, try listening to the calling song sung by Allard's males over at the Singing Insects site--the page is at:
http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/539a.htm
It's a twittering song, quite distinctive, and if it's all you can hear nearby the next time you walk the sidewalk where you took this picture, it's a pretty good step towards naming your cricket as to species. Even if you have several different
Allonemobius
species in the refuge, taking careful note of which songs you hear in any given little area will help. In my own region, my own two resident robust ground cricket species don't mingle--too competitive, I believe--and I suspect it'd be the same elsewhere. I tend to find loose 'communities' of just the one species rather than find similar yet different species all mixed up and calling together.
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Heimchen
, 26 August, 2007 - 9:44pm
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