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San Diego Camel Cricket

Ceuthophilus hesperus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) tylt, some rights reserved (CC BY)

25 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.

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 18, February 16, March 16, April 20, May 31, June 25, July 26, August 13, September 16, October 16, November 21, December 16.
United States199
California199
Mexico1
Baja California1

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
FamilyCamel Crickets, Cave Crickets, and Cave Wēta · Rhaphidophoridae
GenusCamel Crickets · Ceuthophilus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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