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Marsh-cricket

Pteronemobius heydenii

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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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 Austria.January 0, February 0, March 3, April 66, May 22, June 23, July 11, August 4, September 5, October 1, November 1, December 1.
Austria137
France92
Steiermark91
Italy38
Occitanie26
Niederösterreich23
Hungary23
Croatia22
Spain20
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur20

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
FamilyTrigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets · Trigonidiidae
GenusPteronemobius

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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