Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: A cricket?, 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
This one is going to be impossible! I would love someone to prove me wrong.....

I have a few types of grasshopper which I think I have managed to ID, there are a lot of forms even of the same species in some cases, but this one seems to be virtually non-existant.

I have searched the main sites which show variations and species, including bio-images,

http://www.fugleognatur.dk/english/art_uk.asp?mode=liste&id=...

There is one on David Element's site which comes close, BROWN-SPOTTED BUSH CRICKET Platycleis tesselata, but is a poor pic and it's not supposed to be here, the write-up at the bottom says it is moving northwards and could be in the future. When that was written I don't know.

http://www.david.element.ukgateway.net/grasshoppersandcricke...

The only other thing I found is on delta-intkey, a description of Gryllus bipunctatus

http://delta-intkey.com/britin/images/text439.gif

this sounds very much like it, if you read the italics description many details fit mine, including the groove down the face.

I found a list of species supposed to be here, this is not included.

http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/resource/863

This German site has some drawings of other Gryllus species which show similarities, scroll down to the list,

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/panzer1/index.html

This pic shows the groove down the face,