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Gryllodes [1] is a genus of crickets in the family Gryllidae and tribe Gryllini. Species have been recorded in Australia, Asia, Africa (Ethiopia), central Europe, subtropical and tropical Americas. [2] The type species, Gryllodes sigillatus, may be called the tropical or Indian house cricket: a cosmopolitan species that is cultured for pet-food.
Teleogryllus commodus, commonly known as the black field cricket, is a cricket species native to Australia. They are significant pests to most plants in Australia and New Zealand . [ 2 ] T. commodus belongs to the order Orthoptera , the family Gryllidae which are characterized by wings that are folded on the side of the body, chewing mouthparts ...
The house cricket is typically gray or brownish in color, growing to 16–21 millimetres (0.63–0.83 in) in length. Males and females look similar, but females will have a brown-black, needle-like ovipositor extending from the center rear, approximately the same length as the cerci, the paired appendages towards the rear-most segment of the cricket.
Like most cricket species, Teleogryllus oceanicus males produce a calling song to attract potential female mates. Crickets produce the sound of their calls using a "file-scraper" system where, as the male opens and closes its wings, a plectrum (scraper) located on the posterior side of the left wing is rubbed against a filed vein located on the right wing. [5]
Gryllus pennsylvanicus is known as the fall field cricket. G. pennsylvanicus is common in southern Ontario , is widespread across much of North America [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and can be found even into parts of northern Mexico .
The Crickets was the name of Buddy Holly's rock and roll band; [63] Holly's home town baseball team in the 1990s was called the Lubbock Crickets. [64] Cricket is the name of a US children's literary magazine founded in 1973; it uses a cast of insect characters.
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