Gryllus vernalis, the northern wood cricket, is a species of cricket native to deciduous woods of the midwestern United States, where its primary habitat is leaf litter. It can be identified by its totally black exoskeleton (with the occasional red patch on the femora) and its wide pronotum.[1]

Northern wood cricket
Two northern wood crickets trapped on glue-based rat traps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Gryllidae
Genus: Gryllus
Species:
G. vernalis
Binomial name
Gryllus vernalis
Blatchley, 1920
Synonyms
  • Acheta vernalis
  • Gryllus assimilis vernalis Blatchley, 1920
  • Gryllus americanus Blatchley, 1903 (not Drury, 1773)

References

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  1. ^ Alexander, R.D. (1957). "The taxonomy of the field crickets of the Eastern United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Acheta)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 50: 584–602. doi:10.1093/aesa/50.6.584.