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Species Gryllus fultoni - Southern Wood Cricket

Gryllus fultoni - female Gryllus fultoni - male Gryllus fultoni - male Gryllus fultoni - female Gryllus fultoni - female Gryllus fultoni - male Gryllus fultoni - male
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 Gryllinae (Field Crickets)
Genus Gryllus (Field Crickets)
Species fultoni (Southern Wood Cricket)
Identification
Head narrower than pronotum; cerci usually yellow in life; hind wings always short; tegmina brown and black
Range
much of southeastern United States east from Texas and Oklahoma and south from Missouri, Ohio Valley, and about Maryland.
Habitat
Leaf litter in woods; occasionally in roadside grasses
Season
Overwinters as a late juvenile and matures in spring
Remarks
Very similar to Gryllus vernalis, and differing somewhat in habitat preference, song, etc.
Print References
Weissman, D. B., & Gray, D. A. (2019). Crickets of the genus Gryllus in the United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). Zootaxa, 4705(1), 1-277.
Internet References
Singing Insects of North America
Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 3 May, 2009 - 1:44pm
Additional contributions by metrioptera
Last updated 11 June, 2021 - 5:35am

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