Hairy scaly cricket (Arachnocephalus vestitus)

Arachnocephalus vestitus
Other common names
Hairy scale-cricket
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Mogoplistidae
Subfamily:	Mogoplistinae
Tribe:	Arachnocephalini
Genus:	Arachnocephalus
Scientific name
Arachnocephalus vestitus Costa, 1855
Geography
Native countries:
France Algeria Cyprus Greece

The Hairy scaly cricket (Arachnocephalus vestitus) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Mogoplistinae (scaly crickets).

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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File

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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.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Viacheslav Krylenko — 26 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 16 specimens collected
• Louis AUREGLIA — 10 specimens collected

• Josip Skejo — 5 specimens collected
• Gilles San Martin — 4 specimens collected
• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 3 specimens collected
• Laurent Grima — 2 specimens collected
• Valentin Moser — 2 specimens collected
• Elia Guariento — 2 specimens collected
• Tiago Carrapiço — 2 specimens collected
• Eduard Garin — 1 specimen collected
• Natalia Matushkina — 1 specimen collected
• Jofre Espigulé-Pons — 1 specimen collected
• Sarka Masova — 1 specimen collected
• Juraj Ahel — 1 specimen collected
• Fabio Cianferoni — 1 specimen collected
• Daniel Cahen — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Viacheslav Krylenko — 26 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 17 specimens identified
• Josip Skejo — 12 specimens identified

• Gilles San Martin — 4 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 3 specimens identified
• Laurent Grima — 2 specimens identified
• Louis AUREGLIA — 2 specimens identified
• Valentin Moser — 2 specimens identified
• Elia Guariento — 2 specimens identified
• Eduard Garin — 1 specimen identified
• 태우 김 — 1 specimen identified
• Sarka Masova — 1 specimen identified
• Fabio Cianferoni — 1 specimen identified
• Tiago Carrapiço — 1 specimen identified
• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

Catalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOEUNISFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea NewGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldIRMNGIUCNNCBI taxonomyObservation.orgOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)TAXREFUMLS CUIXeno-canto