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Northern Mole Cricket

Neocurtilla hexadactyla

4,452 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Virginia.January 20, February 22, March 24, April 39, May 50, June 25, July 20, August 20, September 24, October 22, November 18, December 19.
United States1,750
Virginia302
Maryland229
Texas191
North Carolina97
Georgia68
Illinois64
Missouri62
Canada59
Ontario59

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyMole Crickets · Gryllotalpidae
GenusNeocurtilla

Sources

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