The Tropical house cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Gryllinae (field crickets).

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Overview

*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

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.

Identification resources

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceGryllodes sigillatus

Habitat

Geophilous

Activity

Nocturnal

Sound

Stridulation

Flight

Entirely flightless

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.

Diet

Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
Singing Insects of North America				View 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.

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
Ken Robert Schneider — 3 specimens collected
Luis Pascoal da Silva — 3 specimens collected
Daniel Killam — 2 specimens collected
Matthew Connors — 2 specimens collected
Tristan McKnight — 2 specimens collected
Ruan Booysen — 2 specimens collected
John David Curlis — 2 specimens collected
Hubert Szczygiel — 2 specimens collected
Antonio Wenceslao Salas Jaramillo — 2 specimens collected
Graham Montgomery — 2 specimens collected
Austin Kelly — 2 specimens collected
Kyle C. Elshoff — 2 specimens collected
Diego Almendras — 1 specimen collected
Ryan McMinds — 1 specimen collected
Naufal Urfi Dhiya Ulhaq — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

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
Thomas Mesaglio — 9 specimens identified
Graham Montgomery — 4 specimens identified
Fábio Santos — 3 specimens identified
Trina Roberts — 3 specimens identified
Andrew Kleinhesselink — 3 specimens identified
Luis Pascoal da Silva — 3 specimens identified
Daniel Killam — 2 specimens identified
Tristan McKnight — 2 specimens identified
Uriel Arnaldo Torres Zevallos — 2 specimens identified
John David Curlis — 2 specimens identified
Hubert Szczygiel — 2 specimens identified
James Kevin Douch — 2 specimens identified
Ken Robert Schneider — 2 specimens identified
Austin Kelly — 2 specimens identified
Ryan McMinds — 1 specimen identified

References