Two-spotted cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus)

Gryllus bimaculatus
Other common names
Southern field cricket, two-spotted field-cricket
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Gryllidae
Subfamily:	Gryllinae
Tribe:	Gryllini
Genus:	Gryllus
Scientific name
Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer, 1773
Geography
Native countries:
Cape Verde Cyprus Italy Japan Malta China Austria Spain Turkey Croatia Poland France Greece Egypt India Portugal South Africa Nigeria Saudi Arabia Ukraine United Kingdom Taiwan Timor-Leste Yemen
Introduced countries:
United States
Traits
Diet:	Forbs, Insects, Detritus
Sound
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The Two-spotted cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Gryllinae (field crickets).

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Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceGryllus bimaculatus

Habitat

Geophilous

Activity

Nocturnal

Sound

Stridulation

Associated organizations

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
IUCN Red List Orthoptera				View URL
IUCN European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets		2016		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.

• Tiago Carrapiço — 12 specimens collected
• HADDAD Karim — 9 specimens collected
• Louis AUREGLIA — 8 specimens collected

• Claude Kolwelter — 8 specimens collected
• Craig Peter — 8 specimens collected
• Rafel Matamales Andreu — 7 specimens collected
• Anthony G Rebelo — 7 specimens collected
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 7 specimens collected
• Luis Moreira da Costa — 4 specimens collected
• Miguel Guerreiro — 4 specimens collected
• Jofre Espigulé-Pons — 4 specimens collected
• Vyacheslav Yusupov — 4 specimens collected
• Octávio Mateus — 4 specimens collected
• Fabio Cianferoni — 4 specimens collected
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens collected
• Tim Adriaens — 3 specimens collected
• Pedro Beja — 3 specimens collected
• Chris Taklis — 3 specimens collected
• Mattia Menchetti — 3 specimens collected
• Duarte Frade — 3 specimens collected

Identified by

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

• Riaan Stals — 23 specimens identified
• 태우 김 — 11 specimens identified
• Luis Pascoal da Silva — 10 specimens identified

• Rafel Matamales Andreu — 8 specimens identified
• Claude Kolwelter — 8 specimens identified
• Holger Braun — 6 specimens identified
• Craig Peter — 5 specimens identified
• Rob Felix — 5 specimens identified
• Joan Díaz-Calafat — 4 specimens identified
• Francesco Vitali — 4 specimens identified
• Fabio Cianferoni — 4 specimens identified
• Sebastian Ćato — 3 specimens identified
• Tim Adriaens — 3 specimens identified
• Louis AUREGLIA — 3 specimens identified
• Josip Skejo — 3 specimens identified
• Jakob Fahr — 3 specimens identified
• Octávio Mateus — 3 specimens identified
• Andre Hospers — 3 specimens identified
• Марина Горбунова — 3 specimens identified
• Mousaid Mohamed — 3 specimens identified

References

Taxon identifiers

AnimalBaseBelgian Species ListBioLibBOLD SystemsCatalogue of LifeDyntaxaEASINEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOEUNISFauna EuropaeaFauna Europaea NewGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)iNaturalistIndia Biodiversity PortalInsects (Insecta) of the WorldIRMNGJ9U entityKorean National Species listNaturbasenNBIC scientific nameNBN System KeyNCBI taxonomyNederlands SoortenregisterObservation.orgOpenAlexOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)TaiBNETTaiCOL ID (new version)TAXREFTierstimmenarchivUNIIXeno-canto