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7 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Yes..you are right... Its not applicable in Mole crickets..!!

Latimeria
Latimeria 12 years ago

I've never heard them referred to as fork-tailed. There are fork-tailed bush katydids, though.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

I know its Mole cricket.. they also called Fork tailed..!!

Latimeria
Latimeria 12 years ago

Ashish, look at the front legs. They're fossorial, adapted for digging. Only the mole crickets have this adaptation, it's characteristic of mole crickets. Definitely not a bush cricket.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Fork tailed bush cricket.

RicardoBayshark
RicardoBayshark 12 years ago

Could you add location of this mole cricket = Gryllotalpidae

Latimeria
Latimeria 13 years ago

Definitely a species of mole cricket.

Spotted on Oct 27, 2010
Submitted on Oct 27, 2010

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