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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Two-clawed Mole Crickets (Scapteriscus) » Southern Mole Cricket (Scapteriscus borellii)
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Mole Cricket - Scapteriscus borellii
Copyright © 2005 Lynette Schimming

Mole Cricket - Scapteriscus borellii
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
December 22, 2005
Found under a garden stone, it had quite a network of tunnels and seemed to be living fairly peacefully with a bunch of fire-ants about 6 inches away under the same stone.
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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 23 December, 2005 - 2:14pm
Last updated 19 July, 2008 - 3:22pm

Moved
Moved from Mole Crickets.
… John R. Maxwell, 29 March, 2008 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

Scapteriscus borellii nymph
This is a nymph of Scapteriscus borellii Giglio-Tos, 1894.
… Sam W. Heads, 28 March, 2008 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

Interesting
A late nymph. Unfortunately, it is not possible to sex it, because females mole crickets have no visible ovipositor. Will probably be an adult next spring, and then the tegmina will be diagnostic - for only those of males are fitted to stridulate.
Now, it is doubtful whether it will still live at the same place, if the fire-ants colony is to develop. I think that once noticed by the ants, the mole cricket will have to move.
… Richard Vernier, 24 December, 2005 - 5:28am login or register to post comments

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