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Tawny Mole Cricket
Neoscapteriscus vicinus
Neoscapteriscus vicinus, the tawny mole cricket, is a species of insect in the mole cricket family, Gryllotalpidae. Colombian insect taxonomist Oscar Cadena-Castañeda studied specimens of the genus that had been called Scapteriscus, and decided that it included 2 groups (1) a smaller group (the true Scapteriscus) and a larger group that he named Neoscapteriscus (a new genus)in 2015 . It is native to South America and also occurs in the southern United States where it arrived...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 558126.