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Southern Ground Cricket

Allonemobius socius

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

19 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 Arizona.January 7, February 6, March 8, April 11, May 10, June 5, July 6, August 8, September 6, October 5, November 5, December 6.
United States297
Arizona85
Texas63
Georgia19
New Jersey15
North Carolina11
Massachusetts10
Illinois8
South Carolina8
Alabama6

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
GenusRobust Ground Crickets · Allonemobius

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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