Mallee Dwarf Cricket
Male, dorsal
Ellura
Australian Mole Cricket
S1, Male, dorsal
 
                      
Mallee Dwarf Cricket (Territirritia tya)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)
Family: Pygmy Cricket (Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Mallee Dwarf Cricket (Territirritia tya)
This Photo:     🔍Male, perspective on little finger🔎

Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
Very dark crickets with few markings; males are black while females are dark brown. They have not discernable face markings, which is unusual for crickets.
The females have small pale pairs of spots on their backs (not always visible). Her ovi-positor sheaths have serrated tips.
Females are ~6mm, with ovipositor ~3-4mm, while our male was ~4mm.
Both genders are wingless.
These are well known in the Murray Mallee, and are often found with Ottes Pygmy Cricket (Calperum ottei) in smaller quantities; which we've also experienced.

Copyright © 2019-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 25-Jul-2019
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.