Lesser field cricket (Melanogryllus desertus)

Melanogryllus desertus
Other common names
Lesser Field-cricket, desert cricket, steppe cricket
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Gryllidae
Subfamily:	Gryllinae
Tribe:	Gryllini
Genus:	Melanogryllus
Scientific name
Melanogryllus desertus (Pallas, 1771)
Geography
Native countries:
Albania Bulgaria Cyprus Italy Georgia (country) Kyrgyzstan China Moldova Romania Russia Austria Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Hungary Slovakia Spain Turkey Slovenia Croatia Montenegro France Greece Kazakhstan North Macedonia Serbia Armenia Monaco Portugal Ukraine Uzbekistan Kosovo
Pest status
Known pest
Sound
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The Lesser field cricket (Melanogryllus desertus) 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

Biology

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
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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 — 5 specimens collected
• Марина Горбунова — 4 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens collected

• Павел Голяков — 2 specimens collected
• Alexandr Stanislavschi — 2 specimens collected
• Valentin Moser — 2 specimens collected
• Denys Davydov — 2 specimens collected
• Mykyta Peregrym — 1 specimen collected
• Anastasiia Davydova — 1 specimen collected
• Damir Yumagulov — 1 specimen collected
• Анна Mостовая — 1 specimen collected
• Gilles San Martin — 1 specimen collected
• Dmitry Shtol — 1 specimen collected
• Niklas Wahlberg — 1 specimen collected
• Alexey Seregin — 1 specimen collected
• Kaarel Sammet — 1 specimen collected
• Régis Hocdé — 1 specimen collected
• Roman Romanov — 1 specimen collected
• Ivan Smorkalov — 1 specimen collected
• Konstantin Romanov — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Josip Skejo — 8 specimens identified
• Viacheslav Krylenko — 4 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens identified

• Марина Горбунова — 3 specimens identified
• Slobodan Ivkovic — 1 specimen identified
• Павел Голяков — 1 specimen identified
• Anastasiia Davydova — 1 specimen identified
• Alexandr Stanislavschi — 1 specimen identified
• Gilles San Martin — 1 specimen identified
• Niklas Wahlberg — 1 specimen identified
• Kaarel Sammet — 1 specimen identified
• Régis Hocdé — 1 specimen identified
• Roman Romanov — 1 specimen identified
• Konstantin Romanov — 1 specimen identified
• Hans Henrik Bruun — 1 specimen identified
• Михаил Кривошеев — 1 specimen identified
• Rob Felix — 1 specimen identified
• Francesco Vitali — 1 specimen identified
• Denys Davydov — 1 specimen identified
• Denis Ivanov — 1 specimen identified