Japanese burrowing cricket (Velarifictorus micado)

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Velarifictorus micado
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Gryllidae
Subfamily:	Gryllinae
Tribe:	Gryllini
Genus:	Velarifictorus
Scientific name
Velarifictorus micado (Saussure, 1877)
Synonyms:	Scapsipedus micado
Geography
Native countries:
Japan China South Korea Indonesia India Vietnam Taiwan
Introduced countries:
United States Georgia (country)
Sound
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The Japanese burrowing cricket (Velarifictorus micado) 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

Velarifictorus micado is native to East Asia. It was first found in the US's capitol of Washington DC in 1959, possibly introduced as eggs in shipments of soil with ornamental plants, and is now widely distributed in the US east of the Great Plains (Bowles, 2018).

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceVelarifictorus micado

Habitat

Geophilous

Activity

Nocturnal

Sound

Stridulation

Flight

Flightless and flying morphs, weak flier

Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
Songs of Insects	Lang Elliott and Will Hershberger			View URL
Singing Insects of North America				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.

• Amaël Borzée — 9 specimens collected
• Matthew Parr — 8 specimens collected
• Carrie Seltzer — 5 specimens collected

• Zachary Dankowicz — 3 specimens collected
• Nick Abbate — 3 specimens collected
• Vikas Madhav Nagarajan — 2 specimens collected
• John Friel — 1 specimen collected
• Katja Schulz — 1 specimen collected
• Patrick Coin — 1 specimen collected
• wendi zhao — 1 specimen collected
• Martin Kalfatovic — 1 specimen collected
• Zackary Graham — 1 specimen collected
• Jessica Schnell — 1 specimen collected
• Michael J. W. Carr — 1 specimen collected
• Nicholas Sennett — 1 specimen collected
• Michael PIRRELLO — 1 specimen collected
• Andrew Kleinhesselink — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• 태우 김 — 36 specimens identified
• Tyler Grant — 18 specimens identified
• Matthew Parr — 5 specimens identified

• Nick Abbate — 3 specimens identified
• Carrie Seltzer — 2 specimens identified
• Amaël Borzée — 2 specimens identified
• Vikas Madhav Nagarajan — 2 specimens identified
• Patrick Coin — 1 specimen identified
• Martin Kalfatovic — 1 specimen identified
• Zackary Graham — 1 specimen identified
• Michael J. W. Carr — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

BOLD SystemsBugGuideCatalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistIRMNGITIS TSNNatureServe ExplorerNCBI taxonomyOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)UMLS CUIXeno-canto