Common corncricket
Hetrodes pupus
The common corncricket is a chunky insect from South Africa, a cousin of grasshoppers and bush-crickets. It is so special that it is the only species in its whole genus. It was one of the insects named by the famous scientist Carl Linnaeus.
Lives in
South Africa
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. Look at it, but let it go on its way.
What does it eat?
Like its relatives, it eats mostly plants and sometimes other small things it finds.
How fast is it?
Common corncricket about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is the only species in its genus, Hetrodes.
2
Linnaeus first named it Gryllus pupus in 1758.
3
There are four kinds of it, called subspecies. One of them is named after Namaqualand, a dry region in southern Africa.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common corncricket
?Where does the common corncricket live?
In South Africa.
?Is the common corncricket dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hetrodes pupus
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Hetrodes (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Photo by Andrey Sochivko yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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