Grylloidea

Serra, Valencia, Spain

Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia

Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia

Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia

Ba-Phalaborwa, Limpopo, South Africa

Orpen, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Phylum: ArthropodaSubphylum: HexapodaClass: Insecta (insects, Insekten)Subclass: PterygotaOrder: Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids, Heuschrecken)Suborder: Ensifera (long-horned grasshoppers, Langfhlerschrecken)Superfamily: GrylloideaFamily: Gryllidae LAICHARDING, 1781 (crickets, Echte Grillen)Subfamily: Nemobiinae Saussure, 1877 (ground crickets, Bodengrillen)Tribus: Nemobiini Saussure, 1877Genus: Nemobius Audinet-Serville, 1839Nemobius sylvestris BOSC, 1792 (Waldgrille)more info (German) incl. "sounds": www.natur-in-nrw.de/HTML/Tiere/Insekten/Heuschrecken/TH-3...and: www.pyrgus.de/Nemobius_sylvestris.htmlGermany, Brandenburg, vic. Knigs-Wusterhausen: Dubrow (mixed forest with old oaks), 01.05.2013IMG_3312

New Paltz, NY (September 13, 2013)

Phyllopalpus pulchellus - Red-headed Bush Cricket, also known as the Handsome Trig. The dorsal view is quite interesting, again showing the bold color pattern and the enlarged palps. The antennae are long and thin, except for near the body, where noticeably thickened. I might speculate that the thick areas of the antennae enhance the mimicry of a beetle by appearing to be the whole length of the antennae. You can see pretty well that one forewing is transparent and the other is dark--some images on BugGuide show this well.

West Virginia, United States

New Paltz, NY (September 12, 2013)

08/13/2009 Harrison Co., IN

Phyllopalpus pulchellus - Red-headed Bush Cricket, also known as the Handsome Trig. I found this crawling on a bridge railing in the sun. Length, about 7 mm. I believe this is a male. Those large palpi are something else--they look like clubs or fans.To me, this cricket has always looked weird. The bold pattern strikes me as mimicry of something with chemical armament. Those palps are weird, too, and (aha!) I realize they remind me of beetle mandibles. The female has wings very convex, shiny, and beetle-like. Double-aha, this cricket is, perhaps, a mimic of chemically-defended ground beetles, such as the Bombardier Beetles, Brachinus.

Phyllopalpus pulchellus - Red-headed Bush Cricket, also known as the Handsome Trig. I found this female crawling under the lid of my recycling dumpster.

Kampung Santubong, Sarawak, Malaysia

Kampung Santubong, Sarawak, Malaysia

Christmas, Florida, United States

Sandalwood Mobile Home Park, Florida, United States