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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) » Field Crickets (Gryllus)

Genus Gryllus - Field Crickets

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited
Gryllus veletis - female Cricket ? - Gryllus Cricket - Gryllus - female cricket - Gryllus - female Gryllus - male unidentified cricket - Gryllus - female Gryllus nymph moulting series 10:10am - Gryllus Gryllidae - Gryllus - 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)
Explanation of Names
Gryllus Linnaeus 1758
Numbers
35 spp. in the US, ~100 total(1)
Identification
see (2)
Most species similar in appearance; identifications from images tend to be tentative. In a given area, one can recognize species through experience, by learning which song go with which species at what time of year. It is usually easier to identify a cricket by hearing it than by seeing it! Several species (especially in the west) are yet unnamed. Females do not sing.
Life Cycle
Raising Gryllus texensis
Print References
Nickle DA, Walker TJ (1974) A morphological key to field crickets of southeastern United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllus). Fla. Entomol. 57: 8‒12.
Works Cited
1.Orthoptera Species File Online
2.Crickets of the genus Gryllus in the United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae)
DAVID B. WEISSMAN, DAVID A. GRAY. 2019. Magnolia Press.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 16 October, 2004 - 6:12pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, David Ferguson, v belov, metrioptera, Tyler Hedlund, dvoribird
Last updated 23 December, 2024 - 9:07am

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