Gryllotalpa australis
2 Mole cricket at Beechworth, VIC
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| Gryllotalpa australis | trevorpreston | 16 Jan 2024 | ||
| Gryllotalpa australis | trevorpreston | 13 May 2022 | ||
| Unverified | micosaus | 12 Apr 2022 |
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Mole cricket?
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13 May 2022
I have suggested this mole cricket is Gryllotalpa australis (Rentz p357). It is not nitidula because its pronota is not smooth shiny and dark, leaving australis or coarctata. I believe its australis because of how dark the tegmina are.
Location information
- Places Beechworth, VIC
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- micosaus Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- micosaus NatureMapr Gryllotalpa australis Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Species information
- Gryllotalpa australis Scientific name
- Mole cricket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 709.17m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
Quality score
4 / 7
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- More than one media file
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location