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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Ground Crickets (Nemobiinae) » Robust Ground Crickets (Allonemobius) » Striped Ground Cricket (Allonemobius fasciatus)
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Unknown cricket - Allonemobius fasciatus - female
Copyright © 2011 Grammazoo

Unknown cricket - Allonemobius fasciatus - Female
Niagara, Ontario, Canada
August 10, 2011
Size: approx 22mm
Notice the ant, which has been speared by one of the crickets hind leg 'spurs'....
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Contributed by Grammazoo on 11 August, 2011 - 10:28am
Last updated 2 January, 2012 - 12:09am

Moved
Moved from Ground Crickets.
… David J. Ferguson, 2 January, 2012 - 12:09am login or register to post comments

an adult female Ground Cricket
Hopefully we'll get more of these posted on BugGuide separated to species, or at least to genus, before too much longer. They can be rather difficult to identify just from a photo.

The ant is interesting. I wonder if the Cricket was trying to kick it off when it got stabbed.

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… David J. Ferguson, 11 August, 2011 - 11:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you. The photo isn't th
Thank you. The photo isn't the clearest for an I.D., but I had to post it once I saw the ant - probably just a case of it being in the way when the cricket kicked off in a jump?
… Grammazoo, 12 August, 2011 - 12:33am login or register to post comments

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