striped ground cricket

(Allonemobius fasciatus)

Conservation Status
striped ground cricket
Photo by Alfredo Colon
  IUCN Red List

not listed

 
  NatureServe

NNR - Unranked

 
  Minnesota

not listed

 
           
           
           
 
Description
 
 

The head is crossed by five well marked dark stripes.

The wings cover no more than three-fourths of the body.

On the female the ovipositor is longer than the hind femur.

 
     
 

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Song

 
 
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Similar Species

 
  Southern ground cricket (Allonemobius socius) is identical in appearance and the male has the same calling song. The two species can only be distinguished through biochemical analysis. It does not occur in Minnesota.  
     
 
Habitat
 
 

Undergrowth

 
     
 
Biology
 
 

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Life Cycle

 
 

 

 
     
 

Nymph Food

 
 

 

 
     
 

Adult Food

 
 

Plant material including seeds and seedlings, small fruits, dead and dying insects.

 
     
 
Distribution
 
 

Distribution Map

 

Sources

7, 24, 27, 29, 30, 70, 82, 83.

 
  11/25/2023      
         
 

Occurrence

 
 

 

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
 

Order

Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids)

 
 

Suborder

Ensifera (katydids, crickets, and allies)  
  Infraorder Gryllidea (crickets)  
 

Superfamily

Grylloidea (true crickets and allies)  
 

Family

Trigonidiidae (trigs, sword-tailed crickets, and ground crickets)  
 

Subfamily

Nemobiinae (ground crickets)  
  Tribe Pteronemobiini  
 

Genus

Allonemobius (robust ground crickets)  
       
 

Synonyms

 
 

 

 
       
 

Common Names

 
 

banded ground cricket

striped ground cricket

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary

Ovipositor

A tube-like organ near the end of the abdomen of many female insects, used to prepare a place for an egg and to place the egg.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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  Alfredo Colon
September 2019

Location: Woodbury, Minnesota

striped ground cricket  
  Calvin Darling
1/23/2018

Location: Moorhead (Oakport), MN, Clay County

I find hundreds in a field down by the river in late summer to early fall

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