European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)

Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Gryllotalpidae
Subfamily:	Gryllotalpinae
Tribe:	Gryllotalpini
Genus:	Gryllotalpa
Scientific name
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geography
Native countries:
Germany Italy Liechtenstein Spain France Portugal Cyprus
Introduced countries:
United States
Traits
Diet:	Roots, Forbs, Insects
Pest status
Known pest
Sound
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Identification

Identification resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
Singing Insects of North America				View URL

Associated organizations

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
IUCN European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets		2016		View URL
Singing Insects of North America				View URL
xeno-canto				View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species. Read more…

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Анна Mостовая — 11 specimens collected
• Jakob Fahr — 6 specimens collected
• Valentin Moser — 4 specimens collected

• Victor Parkhomenko — 4 specimens collected
• Denys Davydov — 4 specimens collected
• Denis Ivanov — 4 specimens collected
• Andrzej Oleksa — 3 specimens collected
• Alexey Katz — 3 specimens collected
• Michael Steinwandter — 2 specimens collected
• Elia Guariento — 2 specimens collected
• Tommy Andriollo — 2 specimens collected
• Natalya Ivanova — 2 specimens collected
• Villu Soon — 1 specimen collected
• Juha Tuomola — 1 specimen collected
• Mykyta Peregrym — 1 specimen collected
• Danila Vlasenko — 1 specimen collected
• Viacheslav Krylenko — 1 specimen collected
• Wouter Koch — 1 specimen collected
• Cristina Villaverde — 1 specimen collected
• Pospelov Igor — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Анна Mостовая — 12 specimens identified
• Alexey Katz — 8 specimens identified
• Valentin Moser — 5 specimens identified

• Jakob Fahr — 4 specimens identified
• Elia Guariento — 4 specimens identified
• Denys Davydov — 4 specimens identified
• Denis Ivanov — 4 specimens identified
• Villu Soon — 3 specimens identified
• Andrzej Oleksa — 3 specimens identified
• Stanimira Deleva — 3 specimens identified
• Francesco Vitali — 3 specimens identified
• Tommy Andriollo — 3 specimens identified
• Michael Steinwandter — 2 specimens identified
• Wouter Koch — 2 specimens identified
• Igor Balashov — 2 specimens identified
• Andrius Petrašiūnas — 2 specimens identified
• Patrick Hacker — 2 specimens identified
• Natalya Ivanova — 2 specimens identified
• Juha Tuomola — 1 specimen identified
• Mykyta Peregrym — 1 specimen identified