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Unidintified cricket possibly a hoplosphyrum boreale?
September 23, 2009
I just sent you a couple of pictures and asked you to identify a cricket that wasn’t a field cricket. I poked around online and found a description that fit. I couldn’t find a picture. “females are scaly and wingless” “common scaly cricket”? What do you think?
bugbarb
Chantry Flat, Angeles National Forest, California

Cricket

Unknown cricket species, not a field cricket.
September 23, 2009
I have a healthy family of field crickets which I have raised from eggs laid by a single mother. Occasionally, I put in immature field crickets that I find in my yard. One such cricket has turned out to not be a field cricket. She has not grown at all and has fully developed ovipositor. She is brown, and has some dark horizontal bands. I have had her for over a month and she still doesn’t have wings that I can see. I have never seen this type of cricket before. I live at 2,200 feet elevation in Big Santa Anita Canyon in Angeles National Forest. Our canyon is one of the few places the recent Station Fire hasn’t burned. I find many interesting bugs in my yard because of the location.
Bugbarb
Chantry Flat, Angeles National Forest, California

Cricket

Hi Bugbarb,
Based on two images from Southern California posted to BugGuide, we believe you have properly identified this Cricket as Hoplosphyrum boreale.

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