Smaller sand cricket (Ellipes minuta)

Ellipes minuta
Other common names
Minute pygmy locust, minute pygmy mole grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Tridactylidae
Subfamily:	Tridactylinae
Genus:	Ellipes
Scientific name
Ellipes minuta (Scudder, 1862)
Synonyms:	Ellipes minutus
Geography
Native countries:
Mexico Puerto Rico Canada United States

The Smaller sand cricket (Ellipes minuta) is a species of grasshopper in the family Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets).

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Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceEllipes minuta

Habitat

Fossorial, Riparian-dwelling

Activity

Diurnal

Flight

Weak flier

Associated organizations

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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.

• Charles Hart — 1 specimen collected
• R. Edward DeWalt — 1 specimen collected
• Blake Bringhurst — 1 specimen collected

• Carrie Seltzer — 1 specimen collected
• Graham Montgomery — 1 specimen collected
• Clarence Holmes — 1 specimen collected
• Paula Andrea Sepúlveda-Cano — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Blake Bringhurst — 1 specimen identified
• Graham Montgomery — 1 specimen identified
• Clarence Holmes — 1 specimen identified

• Марина Горбунова — 1 specimen identified
• Nicolas Bédard — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

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