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Texas Trilling Cricket

Gryllus texensis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) shortearedshrew, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

9 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 4, February 3, March 4, April 7, May 4, June 2, July 2, August 2, September 2, October 3, November 3, December 3.
United States69
Texas40
Kansas18
Missouri6
Louisiana3
Georgia1
Oklahoma1

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
FamilyTrue Crickets · Gryllidae
GenusGryllus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Texas Trilling Cricket with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.