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Slow-tinkling Trig

Anaxipha tinnulenta

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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13 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 Virginia.January 1, February 1, March 1, April 2, May 3, June 2, July 1, August 1, September 1, October 1, November 1, December 1.
United States72
Virginia19
Maryland19
Pennsylvania8
North Carolina8
Kentucky4
Ohio3
New Jersey3
Illinois2
Arkansas1

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
GenusBrown Sword-tail Crickets · Anaxipha

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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