Skip to content

Insects › Trigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets

Red-headed Bush Cricket

Phyllopalpus pulchellus

18,892 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) diego26252, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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.

What the records say

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 Massachusetts.January 130, February 117, March 142, April 232, May 428, June 197, July 218, August 845, September 554, October 180, November 133, December 124.
United States16,317
Massachusetts2,346
Ohio1,805
North Carolina1,458
Pennsylvania1,195
Maryland981
New York977
Virginia974
Georgia887
New Jersey678

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
GenusPhyllopalpus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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