Tropical house cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)

Gryllodes sigillatus
Other common names
Banded cricket, Indian house cricket
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Gryllidae
Subfamily:	Gryllinae
Tribe:	Gryllini
Genus:	Gryllodes
Scientific name
Gryllodes sigillatus (Walker, 1869)
Geography
Native countries:
Cape Verde Chad Kuwait China Pakistan Qatar Iraq Laos Malaysia Myanmar Oman Singapore Spain Sri Lanka Burkina Faso Philippines Bahrain Indonesia Maldives Brunei India Portugal Cambodia Ghana Nigeria Saudi Arabia Thailand United Arab Emirates Vietnam Yemen Taiwan Jordan Timor-Leste Cyprus
Introduced countries:
Brazil British Virgin Islands Chad Chile Costa Rica Dominica Germany Jamaica Japan Montserrat Paraguay Saint Martin (French part) Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Antigua and Barbuda Australia Austria Belize Martinique Guam Guatemala Guyana Honduras Kenya Seychelles Sierra Leone Angola Anguilla Argentina Bahamas Caribbean Netherlands Burkina Faso Colombia French Polynesia Peru Poland Suriname Barbados New Zealand Aruba Bermuda Botswana Cook Islands France Guadeloupe Madagascar Mexico Panama Puerto Rico Réunion French Guiana Cayman Islands Ecuador Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Nicaragua Saint Kitts and Nevis South Africa Trinidad and Tobago Bolivia Curaçao Ghana Nigeria United Kingdom Tanzania United States United States Virgin Islands Uruguay Venezuela Zambia Haiti Vanuatu
Traits
Diet:	Detritus, Forbs, Insects, Fruit
Sound
Listen to this species on xeno-canto and SINA

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Overview

Other common names include Indian house cricket and banded cricket.

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

Gryllodes sigillatus is native to West and South Asia, and is now cosmopolitan through worldwide introductions. In the US, it is most abundant in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California.

Identification

Females are generally wingless, but some have short wings that do not extend past the tip of the abdomen.

Biology

Habitat and Ecology

In its introduced range, Gryllodes sigillatus is most commonly found in urban areas, including the interiors of buildings. It is primarily nocturnal.

Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
Singing Insects of North America				View URL
xeno-canto				View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Natural history collections are built by people. The specimens that document this species were collected in the field, preserved in collections, and identified by generations of researchers and naturalists. Bionomia helps make these often-overlooked contributions visible by linking specimen records to the people behind them.

The contributors shown here are drawn from specimen records made available through GBIF and attributed to individuals by Bionomia. Each list shows up to the 20 people with the most specimens for this species, ranked from most to fewest.

Collected by

These people collected specimens of this species in the field, helping build the physical record of where and when it has occurred.

• Rodolfo Salinas-Villarreal — 13 specimens collected
• Thomas Mesaglio — 9 specimens collected
• Andrew Kleinhesselink — 4 specimens collected

• Fábio Santos — 3 specimens collected
• Trina Roberts — 3 specimens collected

Identified by

These people examined specimens and determined their taxonomic identity—an essential step in turning a collected specimen into a useful biodiversity record.

• Tyler Grant — 167 specimens identified
• 태우 김 — 25 specimens identified
• Rodolfo Salinas-Villarreal — 22 specimens identified

• Matthew Connors — 18 specimens identified
• Riaan Stals — 11 specimens identified