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Cricket
Scientific Classification
Subfamilies
  • Eneopterinae
  • Tafaliscinae
  • Brachytrupinae
  • Gryllinae
  • Gryllomiminae
  • Gryllomorphinae
  • Gryllospeculinae
  • Itarinae
  • Landrevinae
  • Sclerogryllinae
  • Cachoplistinae
  • Luzarinae
  • Paragryllinae
  • Phalangopsinae
  • Phaloriinae
  • Rumeinae
  • Euscyrtinae
  • Hapithinae
  • Pentacentrinae
  • Podoscirtinae
  • Nemobiinae
  • Oecanthinae
  • Pteroplistinae
  • Trigonidiinae
  • Unassigned
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Introduction

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Anatomy

Description

Like the other memeber of insecta, crickeks have a three part of body which are head,thorax and abdomen, two antennae and six jointed legs. Exoskeleton is coverd cricket's body. At cricket's head, they have both simple and compound eyes. Compound eyes are using for find the mate or avoidance of predator and simple eyes are really sensitive to light because of their transparent cells, they are allowing the light to pass straight to the retina so that they distinguish the dark and light. In the middle of their body which called thorax. There are fore wing and hind wing. Fore wing is closest to the head while hind wing is not. Hind wing is just like the name, its behind the fore wing and farthest from the head. At the last part of body, there are spiracles. It's using for the breathing. Crickets are jumping insects just like grasshopper. So they must have jumping legs on the abdomen to jump. On the very end, there are cercus and ovipositor. Cerci is a sensory organ, it placed the rear of the abdomen and males have larger cercus. Ovipositor is a reproductive organ and it located between the cercus.

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