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European Mole Cricket

Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa

5,744 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 539, February 398, March 624, April 981, May 1,415, June 1,542, July 1,651, August 1,419, September 1,042, October 778, November 425, December 332.
United States11,356
Alaska11,146
Austria437
Russia360
France225
Steiermark217
Germany205
Poland205
Italy170
Ukraine143

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
FamilyMole Crickets · Gryllotalpidae
GenusGryllotalpa

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