Tropical house cricket

Gryllodes sigillatus
Tropical house cricket
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Gryllidae
Subfamily: Gryllinae
Tribe: Gryllini
Genus: Gryllodes
Species:
G. sigillatus
Binomial name
Gryllodes sigillatus
(Walker, 1869) [1]

Gryllodes sigillatus, the tropical house cricket, Indian house cricket or banded cricket, is a small cricket probably native to southwestern Asia, but has spread throughout tropical regions worldwide.[2] Like its relative the house cricket, the tropical house cricket is also raised commercially for feeding certain pets such as reptiles, birds, amphibians, and insectivorous arthropods.[3]

  1. ^ "Taxonomic Information for Tropical House Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)". Encyclopedia of Life.
  2. ^ "Species Gryllodes sigillatus (Walker, 1869)". speciesfile.org.
  3. ^ "New Crickets Are Here!". ghann.com.