Raspy Crickets - Family GRYLLACRIDIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Raspy Crickets that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Striped Raspy Cricket, Tree Cricket
- Paragryllacris combusta, nymph, adult body length 50mm
- The photos show the cricket feeding on nectar from the flowers of the Large Bird-of-Paradise tree in our front yard. We took the pictures at night on OCT 2000. We noticed that the cricket climbed up the same tree at the same time every night. It did the same routine the following days, even we captured it once in a glass jar, watched it for a few hours then let it go. More information and pictures please click on here.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p380.
- 2. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p59.
The members in this family, including late instars, males and females, will produce a raspy sound by rubbing an apparatus on their leg across the abdomen when disturbed. They are active at night. They usually spend the daytime in burrows or in leaves shelters. They have strong and spiny hind legs and very long antenna.
