Gryllotalpa sp '??', needs help...

aros

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Hello, need help in ID.
Found in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia.

What species is this?

What criteria are we assessing in terms of ID-ing this mole cricket to species level in taxonomy?
 

Koh_

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that's a cute bugger!
im originally from s.korea and i used to catch lot of them when i was young back home.
To my understanding, there is only one Gryllotalpa species in asia.
so it should be Gryllotalpa orientalis i guess...?:?
 

aros

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Species List

:?

estimated 71 species in the genus:

G. africana (African Mole Cricket) · G. australis · G. babinda · G. brachyptera · G. brevilyra · G. bulla · G. coarctata · G. colini · G. confusa · G. cophta · G. cossyrensis · G. cultriger (Western Mole Cricket) · G. debilis · G. dentista · G. devia · G. elegans · G. formosana · G. fosser · G. fossor · G. fulvipes · G. fusca · G. gracilis · G. grandis · G. gryllotalpa (European Mole Cricket) · G. henana · G. hirsuta · G. howensis · G. inermis · G. insulana · G. krimbasi · G. longipennis · G. madecassa · G. major (Prairie Mole Cricket) · G. marismortui · G. maroccana · G. microptera · G. micropthalma · G. minor · G. minuta · G. monanka (Dark Night Mole Cricket) · G. nitidula (Shiny Mole Cricket) · G. obscura · G. octodecim · G. orientalis · G. orientalis(Burmeister · G. ornata · G. oryctes · G. oxydactyla · G. oya · G. parva · G. pilosipes · G. pluridens · G. pluvialis · G. ponderosa · G. pygmaea · G. quindecim · G. robusta · G. rufescens · G. sedecim · G. septemdecimchromosomica · G. siamensis · G. spissidens · G. stepposa · G. tali · G. tetradactyla · G. unispina · G. variegata · G. viginti · G. vigintiunum · G. vineae · G. vulgaris

there are actually many species than I have ever imagine in wikipedia lol,
so I bet there are much more than one species in Asia which is densed with insects, just that I don't know how to differentiate them. :confused:

source: http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/G/Gryllotalpa_orientalis/
 
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