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Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (European mole cricket)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa, commonly known as the European mole cricket, is widespread in Europe and has been introduced to the eastern United States. The scientific name is derived from the Latin 'gryllus' meaning a cricket and 'talpa', a mole, and is descriptive because of the fine dense fur by which it is covered and its subterranean habits, and because of the mole-like forelegs adapted for digging, a good example of convergent evolution.
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Prey / Diet

Solanum tuberosum andigena (Irish potato)[1]

Predators

Asio otus (Long-eared Owl)[1]
Felis chaus furax (Jungle cat)[2]
Lanius senator (Woodchat Shrike)[3]
Myotis myotis (mouse-eared bat)[4]
Vormela peregusna (Marbled Polecat)[5]

Consumers

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Citations

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2THE PARASITIC FAUNA AND THE FOOD HABITS OF THE WILD JUNGLE CAT FELIS CHAUS FURAX DE WINTON, 1898 IN IRAQ, Mohammad K. Mohammad, Bull. Iraq nat. Hist. Mus. (2008) 10(2): 65-78
♦ 3Hunting behaviour and diet of migratory Woodchat Shrikes (Lanius senator) in Eastern Romania, ATTILA D. SANDOR, ISTVAN MATHS and IMRE SIMA, BIOLOGICAL LETT. 2004, 41(2): 167-173
♦ 4Feeding behaviour and foraging strategy of free-living mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis and Myotis blythii, R. ARLETTAZ, Anim. Behav., 1996, 51, 1–11
♦ 5Vormela peregusna, Wanda A. Gorsuch and Serge Larivière, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 779, pp. 1-5 (2005)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0