dune cricket

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English

Schizodactylus monstrosus, a species of dune cricket of the type genus of the family Schizodactylidae. Photographed in Rajasthan.

Etymology

From dune (“a hill of sand, especially in a desert”) +‎ cricket (“kind of insect”), named for the sandy habitats which they live in.

Noun

dune cricket (plural dune crickets)

  1. Any orthopteran in the family Schizodactylidae, not too distantly related to the 'true' crickets in the family Gryllidae, known for inhabiting sandy areas.
    Synonyms: splay-footed cricket, (taxonomy) schizodactylid
    • 2023 September 24, Geetha Iyer, “Dune Crickets: The Underdogs of the Thar Desert”, in roundglass sustain‎, roundglass, archived from the original on 2024-04-17:
      The Thar desert in Rajasthan is home to two of the seven known dune cricket species.

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