The Wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) is a species of cricket or katydid in the subfamily Nemobiinae (ground crickets).

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Taxonomy

*Nemobius sylvestris*
Nemobius sylvestris
Other common names
	Woods ground cricket
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Trigonidiidae
Subfamily:	Nemobiinae
Tribe:	Nemobiini
Genus:	Nemobius
Scientific name
	Nemobius sylvestris (Bosc, 1792)
Geography
Native countries:
	Germany; Italy; Morocco; Austria; Netherlands; Slovakia; Spain; Switzerland; Belgium; Poland; Czech Republic; France; Algeria; Portugal; United Kingdom;
Introduced countries:
	United States;
Sound
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Identification

Identification resources

Distribution

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceNemobius sylvestris

Habitat

Geophilous

Activity

Nocturnal

Sound

Stridulation

Habitat and ecology

Land-use change

Pest status

Management

Outbreaks

Outbreak media coverage

Associated organizations

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Resources

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

Raoul Gerend — 17 specimens collected
Luis Pascoal da Silva — 14 specimens collected
Tiago Carrapiço — 12 specimens collected

Claude Kolwelter — 10 specimens collected
Louis AUREGLIA — 9 specimens collected
Gilles San Martin — 9 specimens collected
Ivan Paz-Vinas — 8 specimens collected
Paul Jean-Charles Braun — 6 specimens collected
Jakob Fahr — 6 specimens collected
Fabian A. Boetzl — 4 specimens collected
Iago Sanmartín-Villar — 4 specimens collected
Eva Karbanová — 4 specimens collected
Andre Hospers — 4 specimens collected
Tommy Andriollo — 4 specimens collected
David Singer — 3 specimens collected
Jofre Espigulé-Pons — 3 specimens collected
Octávio Mateus — 3 specimens collected
Marco Schmidt — 2 specimens collected
Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval — 2 specimens collected
Markus Döring — 2 specimens collected

Identified by

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

Raoul Gerend — 17 specimens identified
Luis Pascoal da Silva — 14 specimens identified
Claude Kolwelter — 10 specimens identified

Gilles San Martin — 9 specimens identified
Tiago Carrapiço — 9 specimens identified
Jakob Fahr — 6 specimens identified
Louis AUREGLIA — 5 specimens identified
Paul Jean-Charles Braun — 5 specimens identified
Fabian A. Boetzl — 4 specimens identified
Eva Karbanová — 4 specimens identified
Andre Hospers — 4 specimens identified
Tommy Andriollo — 4 specimens identified
David Singer — 3 specimens identified
Ivan Paz-Vinas — 3 specimens identified
태우 김 — 3 specimens identified
Jofre Espigulé-Pons — 3 specimens identified
Octávio Mateus — 3 specimens identified
Francesco Vitali — 3 specimens identified
Marco Schmidt — 2 specimens identified
Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval — 2 specimens identified

References