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Common Short-tailed Cricket

Anurogryllus arboreus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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25 photos

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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 7, February 7, March 7, April 41, May 14, June 4, July 4, August 4, September 5, October 5, November 6, December 6.
United States122
Texas78
Oklahoma7
Virginia4
North Carolina3
New Jersey3
Georgia2
Tennessee2
Mississippi2
Louisiana2

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
GenusAnurogryllus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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