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Tropical House Cricket
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Grasshoppers & crickets

Tropical House Cricket

Gryllodes sigillatus (Walker, 1869)

Names

EnglishTropical House Cricket
DutchDierentuinkrekel
SpanishGrillo doméstico tropical
Chinese短翅灶蟋
Sranan Tongosprenka (general name for the group)
Scientific nameGryllodes sigillatus (Walker, 1869)

About this species

Gryllodes sigillatus, the tropical house cricket, Indian house cricket or banded cricket, is a small cricket probably native to southwestern Asia, but has spread throughout tropical regions worldwide. Like its relative the house cricket, the tropical house cricket is also raised commercially for feeding certain pets such as reptiles, birds, amphibians, and insectivorous arthropods.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderOrthoptera
FamilyGryllidae
GenusGryllodes

In Suriname

3Records in Suriname
3iNaturalist observations
2019First record
2020Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Sipaliwini3

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

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