Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hygronemobius speculi
Ground Cricket
Scavenger?; littoral and arid zone; January-July; Caught by spraying cracks in sea shore rock cliffs with short lived pyrethrum insecticide. Males can be heard stridulating in cracks in sea share cliffs. Both sexes are flightless, as are nemobines in general and all such indigenous and endemic island crickets probably dispersed by rafting.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Suborder
Ensifera
Superfamily
Grylloidea
Family
Gryllidae
Genus
Hygronemobius
Species
speculi
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
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- Otte, D. Peck, S.B (1998) Crickets of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae and Trigonidiinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research 7: 231-240.
- Peck, S.B. (1996) Diversity and distribution of the orthopteroid insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 1497-1510.
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Hygronemobius speculi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10330. Accessed 31 October 2026.