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Field Cricket - Gryllus pennsylvanicus - male

Field Cricket - Gryllus pennsylvanicus - Male
Mathews County, Virginia, USA
September 26, 2010
Thought this close-up might be helpful.

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Field Cricket - Gryllus pennsylvanicus - male Field Cricket - Gryllus pennsylvanicus - male

Moved
Moved from Field Crickets.

It certainly could be
I'll be looking for more on how to tell the species apart, and maybe there will be something relating to the venation. Part of the problem is that there has been a period of nearly 100 years during which nearly every Gryllus from North America was considered to belong to only one species. It has started changing recently, but detailed information on the various species is lacking to limited.

 
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When I was initially trying to determine what I had I found this website which has some drawings of wing patterns:
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/crickets/wings.html

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