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Brown Cricket - Nemobius sylvestris - female

Brown Cricket - Nemobius sylvestris - Female
Seatac, King County, Washington, USA
September 14, 2007
Size: 11mm
My first cricket submission! Anyway, found in a garden at Highline Seatac Botanical Garden, in some leaf litter. I'm choosing immature, unless this is one of those Orthopterans that have small wings.
Perhaps the Spring Field Cricket, Gryllus veletis...the range is right, and they are known to overwinter as "midsized juveniles"...according to the book Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets of the United States, (1)

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Brown Cricket - Nemobius sylvestris - female Brown Cricket - Nemobius sylvestris - female

Moved
looks like you had one of the first US records of this species!

Moved from Striped Ground Cricket.

The only Ground Cricket listed from that area
is Allonemobius fasciatus. This one looks rather different from those further east, but it's a variable species. Even so, I suspect the ones from the northwest may eventually get a different name.

Moved from Ground Crickets.

Adult female
Ground Cricket. I am not sure which species without researching it more.

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