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Crazy Red Gryllus locorojo - close-up <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63322/crazy_red_-_gryllus_locorojo_-_lateral.html" title="Crazy Red - Gryllus locorojo - lateral"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3043/63322_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1763596810&Signature=UmI4AkivQ0dc3B827hMY%2FiTgt2o%3D" width="200" height="114" alt="Crazy Red - Gryllus locorojo - lateral https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63319/crazy_red_gryllus_locorojo_-_close-up.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63321/crazy_red_-_gryllus_locorojo_-_dorso-lateral.html Crazy Red,Ensifera,Gryllidae,Gryllus,Gryllus locorojo,Orthoptera" /></a></figure><br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63321/crazy_red_-_gryllus_locorojo_-_dorso-lateral.html" title="Crazy Red - Gryllus locorojo - dorso-lateral"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3043/63321_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1763596810&Signature=LjNpLGc7Jt0hPb0YyQAYqp4yoCA%3D" width="200" height="114" alt="Crazy Red - Gryllus locorojo - dorso-lateral This &quot;intruder&quot; was found in a terrarium with House Crickets used for feeding some Mantodea currently on display in our local museum.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63322/crazy_red_-_gryllus_locorojo_-_lateral.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63319/crazy_red_gryllus_locorojo_-_close-up.html Crazy Red,Ensifera,Gryllidae,Gryllus,Gryllus locorojo,Orthoptera" /></a></figure> Crazy Red,Ensifera,Gryllidae,Gryllus,Gryllus locorojo,Orthoptera Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Crazy Red Gryllus locorojo - close-up

Crazy Red - Gryllus locorojo - lateral https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63319/crazy_red_gryllus_locorojo_-_close-up.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63321/crazy_red_-_gryllus_locorojo_-_dorso-lateral.html Crazy Red,Ensifera,Gryllidae,Gryllus,Gryllus locorojo,Orthoptera

Crazy Red - Gryllus locorojo - dorso-lateral This "intruder" was found in a terrarium with House Crickets used for feeding some Mantodea currently on display in our local museum.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63322/crazy_red_-_gryllus_locorojo_-_lateral.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/63319/crazy_red_gryllus_locorojo_-_close-up.html Crazy Red,Ensifera,Gryllidae,Gryllus,Gryllus locorojo,Orthoptera

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    Ferdy Christant
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    Very interesting bug with a mysterious history, reads like a novel :) Posted 7 years ago
    1. View Pudding4brains's profile
      Pudding4brains
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      Yes, I forgot to link the original description in the species page. Done that now :o)
      Weissman et al. (2012) Billions and billions sold: Pet-feeder crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), commercial cricket farms, an epizootic densovirus, and government regulations make for a potential disaster:
      http://www.csun.edu/~dgray/pdfs/pet-feeder%20crickets.pdf       Posted 7 years ago

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The Crazy Red

The "Crazy Red", Gryllus locorojo Weissman & Gray 2012 is a recently described species of cricket, known only from the "pet-feeder" cricket industry. It was introduced to this industry after a virus had wiped out a substantial part of the House Cricket populations in this industry. Morphology and DNA suggest a South American origin of this species and some historical quotes would make it likely that is was introduced to the circuit by workers from the museum in Paris (France) shortly after a trip.. more

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