Scaly cricket  (Pseudomogoplistes vicentae)

Authentication

Information supplied and authenticated by Bryan Pinchen (independent ecologist).

Glossary

  • Cerci: pair of appendages at the posterior end of insect abdomen, which often perform a sensory role.
  • Ovipositor: egg-laying organ in female insects consisting of outgrowths of the abdomen (the hind region of the body in insects). The stinging organ and poison sac of worker bees and non-reproductive female wasps is a modified ovipositor.
  • Stridulate: production of sound by rubbing a file across a membrane. In insects, often a file on a wing rubs against the surface of the other wing, or the file is on a leg which is scraped on the wing.

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