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Gryllus campestris (Field Cricket)

Synonyms: Acheta campestris; Acheta hybrida; Gryllus caudata; Gryllus cephalotes; Liogryllus campestris
Language: French; German

Wikipedia Abstract

Gryllus campestris is one of many crickets known as field crickets. These flightless dark colored insects are comparatively large; the males range from 19 to 23 mm and the females from 17 to 22 mm.
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Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Lactuca sativa (Lettuce)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Coscinia cribraria (Speckled Footman)1
Decticus verrucivorus (British wart-biter)1
Pyrgocorypha subulata (short-winged cone-head)1

Predators

Coracias garrulus (European Roller)[2]
Lanius excubitor (Northern Shrike)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Binema medinae[4]
Neyraiella neyrai <Unverified Name>[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2Sosnowski, J., & Chmielewski, S. (1996). Breeding biology of the roller Coracias garrulus in Puszcza Pilicka forest (Central Poland). Acta ornithologica, 31(2), 119-131.
♦ 3Diet composition and spatial patterns of food caching in wintering Great Grey Shrikes (Lanius excubitor) in Bulgaria, BORIS P. NIKOLOV, NIKOLAY D. KODZHABASHEV and VASSIL V. POPOV, BIOLOGICAL LETT. 2004, 41(2): 119-133
♦ 4Gibson, 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