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Acheta domesticus or Gryllodes supplicans? - Gryllodes sigillatus - female

Acheta domesticus or Gryllodes supplicans? - Gryllodes sigillatus - Female
Mesa, W Main Street, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
May 21, 2013
Size: ca 30mm
originally, I thought it is Acheta domesticus, as it was a visitor in my hotel room. But now I got a hint, that there is a common species in Arizona that is Gryllodes supplicans. Screening the images in www, the latter seems more probably the right ID, but I'm no expert at all and do not know the differentiators.
thanks for clarification and best regards
rolf

this is a female nymph of Gryllodes sigillatus
Once known as G. supplicans. The pattern of banding is is different from Acheta, and also the antennal sockets are separated by only the width of the basal antennal segment. In Acheta, they would be separated by at least 1.5 times the width of the basal antennal segment.

Moved from ID Request.

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