Jamaican field cricket (Gryllus assimilis)

Gryllus assimilis
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Gryllidae
Subfamily:	Gryllinae
Tribe:	Gryllini
Genus:	Gryllus
Scientific name
Gryllus assimilis (Fabricius, 1775)
Geography
Native countries:
Brazil Jamaica Montserrat Bahamas Peru Barbados Haiti Mexico Puerto Rico Ecuador Nicaragua Dominican Republic
Introduced countries:
United States
Traits
Diet:	Forbs, Insects, Detritus
Sound
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The Jamaican field cricket (Gryllus assimilis) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Gryllinae (field crickets).

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Taxonomy

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

Distribution

Gryllus assimilus is found in Jamaica. Other Gryllus species that have been split off by Weissman & Gray (2019) are found in mainland North America, the Bahamas, and other Caribbean islands.

Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
xeno-canto				View URL

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.

• Charles Hart — 7 specimens collected
• Abbott William Nason — 2 specimens collected
• Theodore Henry Frison — 2 specimens collected

• Herbert Holdsworth Ross — 2 specimens collected
• Carl Otto Mohr — 2 specimens collected
• Andre Hospers — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Andre Hospers — 1 specimen identified

References

Weissman, D.B. & Gray, D.A. (2019). Crickets of the genus Gryllus in the United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae)

Taxon identifiers

Belgian Species ListBioLibBOLD SystemsBugGuideCalPhotosCatalogue of LifeCONABIODutch Caribbean Species RegisterEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldITIS TSNNBN System KeyNCBI taxonomyNederlands SoortenregisterOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)TAXREFUMLS CUIUNIIXeno-canto