1. PaDIL Species Factsheet Scientific Name: Gryllodes sigillatus (Walker, 1869) (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae: Gryllini) Common Name Tropical House Cricket Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141420 Image Library New Zealand Biosecurity Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/ Partners for New Zealand Biosecurity image library Landcare Research — Manaaki Whenua http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/ MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries) http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/ 2. Species Information 2.1. Details Specimen Contact: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory - [email protected] Author: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory Citation: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory (2011) Tropical House Cricket(Gryllodes sigillatus) Updated on 4/8/2014 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0) 2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141420 2.3. Facets Commodity Overview: Horticulture Commodity Type: Tomato, Tamarillo & Egg plant Distribution: 0 Unknown Status: NZ - Exotic Groups: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Weta Host Family: 0 Unknown Pest Status: 0 Unknown 2.4. Other Names Indian House Cricket Kurzflügelgrille 2.5. Diagnostic Notes **Male** Adult male body approximately pale brown to sandy-coloured and with various dark spots and markings; top of head usually banded (dark brown anteriorly around median ocellus, then pale transverse band running between lateral ocelli, and behind that dark band running transversely between eyes; than pale brown to yellow vertex, then darker brown occiput). Disk of pronotum largely pale but with dark band along posterior margin; this band then extends ventrally onto lateral lobes and stops near lower front corner; lateral lobes with dark area in upper front section. Forewings darker than pronotum, with 2 harp veins and with once-divided mirror. Tympana on outer face only; legs I and II very pale, whitish and with dark setae; outer face of femora I and II with prominent dark brown spot and inner face of femur II with similar spot; femur III with rows of dark brown spots (often sparse). Femur III with 5 inner and 5outer subapical spurs. Cerci about 1/2 longer than femur III. Spermatophore usually with spermatophylax. **Female** Similar to males. Ovipositor longer than femur III; forewings less than half as long as pronotum and not overlapping medially; first abdominal tergite usually distinctly darker than remaining tergites. **References** - Otte, D. & Alexander, R.D. (1983). _Australian Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)_. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 477 pp. 2.6. References - Otte, D. & Alexander, R.D. (1983). _Australian Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)_. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 477 pp. Results Generated: Saturday, September 25, 2021 .