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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) » Velarifictorus » Japanese Burrowing Cricket (Velarifictorus micado)
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Japanese Burrowing Cricket - Velarifictorus micado
Copyright © 2011 Ali Iyoob

Japanese Burrowing Cricket - Velarifictorus micado
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
July 21, 2009
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Contributed by Ali Iyoob on 3 March, 2011 - 3:56pm
Last updated 17 March, 2011 - 8:40am

Moved
Moved from Long-horned Orthoptera.
… Ali Iyoob, 4 March, 2011 - 8:52am login or register to post comments

I think you are correct, a youngster
Took me a while to make up my mind; Acheta domesticus looks very similar.
… David J. Ferguson, 4 March, 2011 - 1:32am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I probably should have mentioned this guy was in the woods, so a domestic would be somewhat out of place.
… Ali Iyoob, 4 March, 2011 - 8:50am login or register to post comments

Not an ID, just an observation...
It looks a bit like the Japanese Burrowing Cricket (Velarifictorus micado):



Let's see if the experts feel the same way. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 March, 2011 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

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