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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Gryllotalpa » European Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)
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Big Bug - Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa - female
Copyright © 2010 holycow13

Big Bug - Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa - Female
New York, USA
May 3, 2010
Size: about 4" long
I found this bug in a stack of boxes in my basement. Anyone know what it is?

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Contributed by holycow13 on 3 May, 2010 - 10:06am
Last updated 20 May, 2011 - 8:58am

Moved
Moved from Gryllotalpa.
… David J. Ferguson, 30 July, 2010 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

Gryllotalpa species
These are introduced from Europe in New York and adjacent states. They are supposed to be the species Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa. Native species are very similar, but differ in the pattern of veins on the wings and the "teeth" on the legs (can't see those on this one).

This is an adult female, so size would have been just under 2 inches (or perhaps about 2 and a half inches if you count the "cerci" sticking out the rear end). Still pretty darn big for a Cricket.

Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 May, 2010 - 4:59am login or register to post comments

Mole Cricket, Family Gryllotalpidae
I'm not sure which species it is. Definitely a mole cricket. Nice find.
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… Andrew Williams, 3 May, 2010 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

One of the...
...Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) but I am not sure of the species.

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