House cricket

House cricket

Taxobox
name = House cricket


image_width = 260px
image_caption = Male "Acheta domesticus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Orthoptera
familia = Gryllidae
subfamilia = Gryllinae
genus = "Acheta"
species = "A. domesticus"
binomial = "Acheta domesticus"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 [ITIS | ID = 658893 | taxon = "Acheta domesticus" | year = 2007 | date = July 6]

"Acheta domesticus" (house cricket) is a cricket native to Europe [cite web |author=Walker TJ. |year=2007 |url=http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/crickets/adomest.html |title= House cricket, "Acheta domesticus" |publisher= "Featured Creatures." University of Florida/ IFAS ] . Both sexes of this grey or brown cricket are fully winged but can't fly. Originally from the Middle East and North Africa the insect is found in permanently heated buildings such as bakeries. Its shrill warbling song is heard mainly at night.

It is sometimes used as food for captive reptiles, a cheaper-to-raise alternative to Gryllus (field crickets).

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