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Cricket - Allonemobius allardi - female

Cricket - Allonemobius allardi - Female
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens County, New York, USA
August 26, 2007
Size: ~1.2 cm
On sidewalk

species ID is still tentative, but she seems to fit here best
Moved from Allonemobius.

Moved

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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