Skip to content

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

Striped Ground Cricket

Allonemobius fasciatus

5,899 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) natemeade, 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 Ontario.January 24, February 25, March 39, April 77, May 147, June 69, July 52, August 47, September 49, October 40, November 25, December 23.
United States1,692
Canada939
Ontario618
Illinois310
New York272
Quebec179
Massachusetts144
Michigan138
Missouri117
Kentucky97

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