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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Allonemobius griseus - Gray Ground Cricket

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Gryllidea (Crickets)
Family Gryllidae (True Crickets)
Subfamily Nemobiinae (Ground Crickets)
Genus Allonemobius (Robust Ground Crickets)
Species griseus (Gray Ground Cricket)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Allonemobius griseus (Walker, 1904)
Identification
Color with a grayish suffusion; face below the antennae very dark and shining; pronotum with long bristles; lateral margins of dorsal field of male tegmina narrowly yellow; hind femora fuscous-brown with numerous pale spots
Range
Alberta to Quebec; also northern U.S. states from ND-ME, with scattered records further south
Habitat
Sandy places with scanty vegetation
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