Northern Mole Cricket
Neocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty, 1832)
Northern Mole Cricket: https://marylandbiodiversity.org/species/8176
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Northern Mole Cricket in Prince George's Co., Maryland (9/27/2022). (c) Janet Gingold, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). - Janet Gingold via iNaturalist.

Northern Mole Cricket in Prince George's Co., Maryland (9/13/2022). (c) jugbayjs, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). - jugbayjs via iNaturalist.

Northern Mole Cricket in Montgomery Co., Maryland (9/3/2022). (c) mrsn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). - mrsn via iNaturalist.

Northern Mole Cricket in Dorchester Co. (9/13/2025). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) - Wayne Longbottom.

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Northern mole cricket
Illustration of Neocurtilla hexadactyla from Insects, their way and means of living by Robert Evans Snodgrass.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Gryllotalpidae
Genus: Neocurtilla
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N. hexadactyla
Binomial name
Neocurtilla hexadactyla
(Perty, 1832)
Figure 1. Collected in GA Baldwin Co a Neocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty 1832) [1] found on September 23, 2024, by S. Mears

Neocurtilla hexadactyla, commonly known as the northern mole cricket, is a species of mole cricket that is native to eastern North America.[2][3] It also occurs in South America, where it may be an adventive species.[4] Its range extends from the southern reaches of eastern Canada and through the eastern and central United States.[4] It is preyed upon by the wasp Larra analis, which parasitizes live mole cricket hosts.[5]

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  1. ^ "Key to the genera of the Gryllotalpidae found in the Southeastern United States". mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  2. ^ "Species Neocurtilla hexadactyla". Bugguide. Iowa State University. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  3. ^ "Mole Cricket". Texas AgriLife Extension Service: A Field Guide To Common Texas Insects. Texas A&M University. Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Northern Mole Cricket". Singing Insects of North America. University of Florida Entomology and Nematology Department. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  5. ^ Smith, C. E. (June 1935). "Larra analis Fabricius, a Parasite of the Mole Cricket Gryllotalpa hexadactyla Perty". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 37 (4): 65–82 – via CABI Digital Library.

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