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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) » Field Crickets (Gryllinae) » Gryllodes » Tropical House Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)
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cricket - Gryllodes sigillatus - female
Copyright © 2020 Timothy Eric Robinson

cricket - Gryllodes sigillatus - Female
La Mesa, San Diego County, California, USA
December 12, 2020
Size: ~13mm body
Found in apartment. It appears to have wing buds. Does that mean it's immature? It has a fully developed ovipositor, which would seem to indicate that it's mature. Are the wings vestigial?

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Contributed by Tim Robinson on 12 December, 2020 - 9:11pm
Last updated 13 December, 2020 - 8:55am

do note...
that occasional individuals of Gryllodes are long-winged. They are usually easy to recognize. I don't think we have any on BG currently but here is an example from iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55240824
… metrioptera, 13 December, 2020 - 9:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

In this species, adults are short winged.
… Tyler Hedlund, 12 December, 2020 - 9:32pm login or register to post comments

 
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