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Possible Underground mole or camel Cricket - Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
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Possible Underground mole or camel Cricket - Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
South Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
June 4, 2019
Size: three inches
Found when digging fence posts in wet soil. Looks similar to a northern mole cricket but this one was much larger.
Contributed by Marvelwood School on 30 June, 2019 - 6:32pm
Last updated 4 July, 2019 - 3:52pm

Moved
This is the introduced Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (from Europe), established in Westchester co, NY, and a few adjacent counties in CT. Much larger than the native Neocurtilla as you noted; there are also differences in the tibial dactyls on the forelegs. Hoping to see these for myself this fall.

Moved from Mole Crickets.
… metrioptera, 4 July, 2019 - 3:52pm

 
Thank you!
Thank you for clarifying our ID Request with respect to the Gryllotapla species. I never even knew we had an introduced species.

Cheers,

Laurie
… Marvelwood School, 4 July, 2019 - 4:02pm

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 30 June, 2019 - 6:52pm

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