Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tridactylidae.?

Posted by cthirion on 18-12-2014 23:36
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Tridactylidae: Diagnostic characters: small size; forelegs modified for burrowing; front and middle tarsi 2-segmented, hind tarsus 1-segmented (or absect). Tridactylus minutus, a pygmy mole cricket. These small crickets burrow in soft soil near streams and ponds. They are very good jumpers. They have no tympanum and do not sing.

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