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Spanish House-Cricket

Acheta hispanicus

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

24 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 Spain.January 0, February 1, March 1, April 1, May 1, June 5, July 3, August 6, September 36, October 3, November 0, December 0.
Spain57
Andalucía56
Portugal8
FARO6
Región de Murcia1
ÉVORA1
SETÚBAL1

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
FamilyTrue Crickets · Gryllidae
GenusAcheta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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