Sagebrush cricket

Sagebrush cricket
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Orthoptera
Suborder:Ensifera
Family:Prophalangopsidae
Genus:Cyphoderris
Species: C. strepitans
Binomial name
Cyphoderris strepitans
Morris and Gwynne, 1978

The sagebrush cricket or sagebrush grig (Cyphoderris strepitans) is a species of cricket. The female sagebrush cricket sometimes engages in sexual cannibalism.[1]

References

  1. Eggert, Anne-Katrin; Sakaluk, Scott K. (1 May 1994). "Sexual cannibalism and its relation to male mating success in sagebrush crickets, Cyphoderris strepitans (Haglidae: Orthoptera)". Animal Behaviour. 47 (5): 1171–1177. doi:10.1006/anbe.1994.1155 via ScienceDirect.
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