Insects › Trigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets
Columbian Trig
Cyrtoxipha columbiana
28 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
Gundlach's trigCyrtoxipha gundlachi
Oak Bush-cricketMeconema thalassinum
Southern Oak Bush-cricketMeconema meridionale
Narrow-winged Tree CricketOecanthus niveus
Pale Green Assassin BugZelus luridus
Modest KatydidMontezumina modesta
Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 2,459 |
|---|---|
| New York | 383 |
| Virginia | 319 |
| Maryland | 280 |
| North Carolina | 224 |
| Massachusetts | 190 |
| New Jersey | 150 |
| Pennsylvania | 135 |
| Connecticut | 121 |
| Georgia | 110 |
Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.
Traits
Physical
- ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification
Classification
| Kingdom | Animals · Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropods · Arthropoda |
| Class | Insects · Insecta |
| Order | Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera |
| Family | Trigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets · Trigonidiidae |
| Genus | Green Trigs · Cyrtoxipha |
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise Columbian Trig with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.