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Northern Mole Cricket
USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain, via iNaturalist

Grasshoppers & crickets

Northern Mole Cricket

Neocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty, 1832)

Names

EnglishNorthern Mole Cricket
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese六刺短蝼蛄
Sranan Tongosprenka (general name for the group)
Scientific nameNeocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty, 1832)

About this species

Neocurtilla hexadactyla, commonly known as the northern mole cricket, is a species of mole cricket that is native to eastern North America. It also occurs in South America, where it may be an adventive species. Its range extends from the southern reaches of eastern Canada and through the eastern and central United States. It is preyed upon by the wasp Larra analis, which parasitizes live mole cricket hosts.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderOrthoptera
FamilyGryllotalpidae
GenusNeocurtilla

In Suriname

1Records in Suriname
3iNaturalist observations
1962First record

Where it has been recorded

  • Marowijne1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Sources & credits

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