Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Gryllus pinta
Field Cricket
Herbivore; transition and humid forest; March; flightless; shares island with Gryllus abingdoni and the species may separate their distributions by elevation (vegetation zones).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Suborder
Ensifera
Superfamily
Grylloidea
Family
Gryllidae
Genus
Gryllus
Species
pinta
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Otte, D. Peck, S.B. (1997) New species of gryllus (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllidae) from the Galapagos Islands. Journal of Orthoptera Research 6: 161-173.
- 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, Gryllus pinta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6457. Accessed 1 November 2026.