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- The True Crickets can be distinguished from others by presence of long ovipositor and long cerci
in females. They are nocturnally active. They live on the ground, can be found
in burrows, crack in soil or amongst leaf litter. Males produce complex love songs by rubbing wings together.
Their hearing organs are on the front legs.
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- Most species are ground dwelling. Usually both male and female are winged. Male are aggressive. Some species are kept as pets and for fighting in some countries.
- Slow-chirping Mottled Field Cricket
 - Lepidogryllus comparatus, subfamily Gryllinae, female
body length 25mm, male inside hole.
- The Black Field Cricket is dark brown in colour. Female has long pin at
the end of the abdomen which is its ovipositor. More pictures and
information can be found in the details
page.
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- Silent Leaf-runner
  - Metioche vittaticollis, subfamily Trigonidiinae, body length 10mm
- We sometimes find this tiny cricket on the wall outside our house at
night. The insect is wingless with shiny dark brown body. Its legs are light
brown in colour. Different colour and wing length can be found in this
species.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper
Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz,
UNSW Press, 1996, p134.
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- Spider Cricket
  - Endotaria sp., subfamily Phalangopsinae, body length 20mm
- This cricket was found hiding under rotten wood during a winter
day. Its body was grey in colour with dark brown patterns. The cricket is
active at night and could be mistaken as a spider. Both male and female of
this species are wingless.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p386.
- 2. Grasshopper
Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz,
UNSW Press, 1996, p135.
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- Silent Bush Cricket
 - Aphonoides angustissimus, subfamily Eneopterinae, body length 30mm
- Mid summer in Karawatha Forest, we found this Tree Cricket hiding under
leaf during the day. It walked away slowly when we disturbed. It is pale brown
in colour. It has very long antenna, longer than twice the body length. More
pictures and information can be found in this page.
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- Scale Cricket
 - Ornebius sp., body length 20mm, Male, female, subfamily Mogoplistinae
- Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest during early and mid summer. We saw this
cricket a few times. The cricket usually found hiding under loosen bark of gum tree. Also
found resting on leaf. Please visit this page
for more information.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p385.
- 2. Grasshopper
Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz,
UNSW Press, 1996, p121.
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