1. PaDIL Species Factsheet Scientific Name: Teleogryllus sp. (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae: Gryllini) Common Name Cricket Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141411 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) Cricket(Teleogryllus sp.)Updated on 5/4/2014 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/141411 2.3. Facets Commodity Overview: Horticulture, Field Crops and Pastures Commodity Type: Banana, Cucurbitaceous produce, Potato, Sweet Potato, Taro tubers, Yam Distribution: 0 Unknown Status: NZ - Exotic Groups: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Weta Host Family: 0 Unknown Pest Status: 0 Unknown 2.4. Diagnostic Notes **Adult** Large, blackish and dark brown; male body length to end of hindwings 28-35 mm; female body length to end of ovipositor 33-42 mm; head and pronotum often black; face, legs, and forewings varying from dark brown to medium brown; all with longitudinal stripes on back of head; in brownish specimens 6 longitudinal stripes present on occiput; in very dark individuals only 4 stripes visible, 2 emerging from posterior medial margin of each eye; front of head without broad pale stripe connecting lateral ocelli; tibia I with auditory tympana on inner and outer faces; inner one small and roundish, other one very large and elongated; hindwings extending well beyond ends of forewing and end of abdomen; forewings always with well-developed apical area; mirror divided by one vein; harp with 3 or 4 veins; tibia III with 6 inner subapical spurs and 6 (rarely 7) outer subapical spurs; female ovipositor 1.25-1.62 times as long as femur III. **References** - Otte, D. & Alexander, R.D. (1983). _Australian Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)_. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 477 pp. 2.5. References - Otte, D. & Alexander, R.D. (1983). _Australian Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)_. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 477 pp. 3. Diagnostic Images ORT12 (Teleogryllus sp.) ORT12 (Teleogryllus sp.) Dorsal - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Foreleg - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF ORT12 (Teleogryllus sp.) ORT12 (Teleogryllus sp.) Headfront - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Hindleg - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF ORT12 (Teleogryllus sp.) ORT12 (Teleogryllus sp.) Lateral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Wing - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Results Generated: Monday, September 27, 2021 .